Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A British company has invented a new type of concrete designed to rapidly absorb water that could be used to help mitigate the ...

Perhaps the only material on the architectural market known for its "thirst," ultra-porous concrete is being hailed as the future of urban water runoff management for warm climates. The emerging ...

The amount of water in concrete controls many fresh and hardened properties in concrete including workability, compressive strengths, permeability and watertightness, durability and weathering, drying ...