Mixing concrete isn’t fun — it’s heavy, messy, and time-consuming. So when a human-powered cement mixer claims to make the ...

Tired of paying workers to stand around waiting for the ready-mix truck to bring your concrete? A volumetric mixer that lets you make concrete as needed on the jobsite might be the answer, ...

Mixing and utilizing concrete in a construction project, be it in a professional capacity or as part of a home DIY project, is generally a pretty slow-going process. Despite some impressive efforts to ...

Harbor Freight is a popular place to shop for tools for many people, and that's because the store offers a wide variety of items. This even applies to lesser-used tools like cement mixers, and if ...

Concrete can be produced faster and more easily using a newly-designed mixer that is compact and light enough to carry to the location of the pour. The Steele Mixer, a patented device made in the USA ...

Mixing pea gravel with concrete is not only possible, it's actually beneficial for certain projects, as long as you do it correctly. Pea gravel consists of smooth, rounded stones that are typically ...

Engineers have known for some time that calcium chloride salt, commonly used as deicer, reacts with the calcium hydroxide in concrete to form a chemical byproduct that causes roadways to crumble. A ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Concrete is not glamorous. It is the workhorse of building materials: versatile, durable, and almost universally ubiquitous, with 30 billion tons of concrete produced every year ...

The billions of tons of cement made each year have an enormous carbon footprint: 8% of global emissions, or four times more than the airline industry. That’s both because of the energy used to make ...