An abandoned concrete barge has been sitting off the coast of DuPont for more than 60 years. If you time it right, at low tide you can follow a long sandbar littered with barnacled logs and metal ...

While I was looking through old photo albums recently, it brought back memories of when my mother-in-law took my mother and me to the former site of the thriving San Antonio Portland Cement Company.

The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement — suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico disaster — has failed dozens of times in the past, according to an Associated ...

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There are only a handful of buildings in the United States that rival the Virginia State Capitol for historical prominence. Thomas Jefferson designed the original structure, modeled after an ancient ...

The first concrete vessel was a rowboat built in 1848. Frenchman J.L. Lambot at the time constructed a series of rowboats using a procedure he called “Fericement.” Fericement is a forerunner of what ...

COURLAND: Yeah, concrete is actually the binder used - I should say cement is the binder used to create concrete. It only represents perhaps a third of the total. The rest is sand, water and rocks ...