Heidelberg Materials, a German multinational building materials company, has opened a recycling plant for selective separation and sorting of demolition concrete in Katowice, Poland. The plant will ...

Concrete is a long--lasting material, but roads, buildings and other concrete structures can exhaust their usefulness. When these structures are demolished, the debris can get a new life through ...

Reusing the rubble from construction sites isn't just keeping the environment clean, it's also keeping building costs down. Efforts to recycle building materials, from chunks of concrete to scraps of ...

Concrete and asphalt are used to build structures and roads which are engineered to last for decades. Unfortunately, even these materials eventually erode and fall into disrepair. Once these materials ...

Concrete and steel production are major sources of CO2 emissions, but a new solution from Cambridge could recycle both at the same time. Throwing old concrete into steel-processing furnaces not only ...

Demolishing a building is a big, messy pain in the neck. Dynamite is loud and dangerous. Wrecking balls are heavy and dangerous. Why not just get a robot to do the work? That’s exactly what Omer ...

Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, a part of The University of Tokyo, have developed a new procedure for recycling concrete with the addition of discarded wood. They found that the ...

On a recent day at a Cherry Crushed Concrete recycling site, dust covers the manufactured home that houses company offices as dump trucks roll up to drop off loads of concrete. Cherry's workers dump ...

In North America, new buildings continue to go up, highways are widening and leading to newly developed areas, and bridges and roads in an already impressive infrastructure are now being replaced.