The major player for sand usage is concrete. Okay, just to clarify: cement is the lime and clay based glue that holds everything together, and concrete is the finished product that you walk on ...

Rice University researchers have uncovered a promising alternative to sand in concrete – graphene derived from metallurgical coke, a coal-based product. This discovery addresses the ...

Concrete is the foundation—literally —of modern construction, making it the most commonly used building material across the ...

That material, known as concrete aggregate, is made up of sand, gravel and crushed rock ... to get the aggregate it uses for Cowlitz County-based projects from its facility at the Port of ...