Brief Quick staff meetings at the beginning of each workday can create focus, purpose and an understanding of everyone’s challenges and successes, writes Naphtali Hoff. He offers six rules for leaders to create stand-ups that are productive, consistent and help...
Brief Researchers in Australia have discovered a method to recycle soft plastic as an aggregate in concrete. The resulting material was used last year to build a footpath and car park in Frankston, Australia, and researchers say it can offer a way to reduce the carbon...
Brief Researchers have found that the concrete walls in a decommissioned power plant in Japan have not only kept their strength over the decades but have actually gotten stronger with use, thanks to a rare mineral also found in ancient Roman concrete. Insight...
Brief An engineer must take into account when choosing between balanced concrete, under-reinforced concrete or over-reinforced concrete for a beam to support a building. “In most circumstances, under-reinforced section concrete beams are generally preferred to...
Brief Nanosheets made from vegetable waste can retain moisture and improve the binding ability of cement, according to researchers with Europe’s B-SMART project. The researchers also found they can create concrete that generates electricity by adding carrot...
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