Colorado-based Prometheus Materials and other emerging companies are developing new biocements that could help meet the world’s growing concrete demands and avert climate catastrophe. The Bio-Block ...

Cement manufacturing and repair could be significantly improved by using biocement-producing bacteria, but growing the microbes at construction sites remains a challenge. Now, researchers report a ...

Can a fairly new material be used in the same way as the conventional ones we have been building with for centuries? Would it be a viable option to replace, say, concrete, with an environmentally ...

A team of scientists from Newcastle and Northumbria universities, led by architecture academic Dr Martyn Dade-Robertson, are investigating how they can create a new kind of material – biocement – ...

Traditional cement production accounts for 8 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, but the world isn’t exactly going to stop using concrete anytime soon. What’s the solution? A greener ...

Such is not the case with a new biocement, however, which also incorporates waste materials. Developed at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, the biocement is made of two main substances – ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When London-based designer Asif Khan and American cement industry innovator Biomason joined ...

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In about four months, startup Prometheus Materials expects to begin producing portland-cement-free “bio-masonry” units to replace embodied carbon-intensive cementitious masonry units, known as ...

With the addition of a few raw materials, the freeze-dried bacteria in this packet (left image) can form biocement columns (right image). Cement manufacturing and repair could be significantly ...