How Architects Are Using an Ancient Building Technique to Combat Climate Change

Architects also praise rammed earth’s high thermal mass—insulative properties that regulate a building’s indoor temperature.
Cyprus Mail on MSN

Scientists discover secrets of ancient Roman concrete at Pompeii

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ingredients and methods ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Ancient Construction Site in the Ruins of Pompeii Is Revealing New Secrets About the 2,000-Year-Old Recipe for Roman Concrete

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...
ZME Science

Scientists Just Created a Biological Concrete that Heals Itself and Is Carbon Negative

Enzymes are essentially biological catalysts. They are proteins that speed up chemical reactions in the body that would ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Pompeii site confirms the long-lost recipe for Roman concrete

Fresh excavations in Pompeii have turned a buried construction workshop into a working laboratory, revealing how Roman ...
Ancient Origins

Ingredients for Roman Self-healing Concrete Revealed at Pompeii Building Site

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...
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Ancient hot-mixing technique gave Roman concrete self-healing properties

In the ancient Roman city of 'Pompeii,' buried by a massive volcanic eruption about 2,000 years ago, a site has been newly excavated that vividly showcases ancient Roman construction techniques. A ...
ScienceAlert

We Finally Know Why Roman Concrete Has Survived For Nearly 2,000 Years

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...