A lab in Melbourne has developed cardboard-confined rammed earth (CCRE), a composite made using only soil, water and recycled cardboard, which could potentially replace cement, the most polluting material in modern construction. 

No longer need cement for building: Dirt, water and waste-based material could be the future of construction

Lafarge, a French cement major, has been fined $778 million for supporting terror groups, including the Islamic State, during the Syrian civil war. The US Justice Department said that Lafarge SA paid “middlemen” $12.

French cement firm Lafarge fined $778 mn for funding Islamic State, other terror groups

Science has the beauty to bring innovations that one has not imagined so far and in an interesting development, two UAE-based architects are looking at possibilities to build structures using cement made by salt.

UAE: Architects use salt to create cement

After a break of 20 years,?Afghanistan's first?cementfactory is once more clanking noisily in the countryside near Kabul as crushed-up limestone rocks rattle along a battered conveyor belt to the newly restored kiln. In an area desperately short of industry and jobs, workers hope the relaunch of the plant built by Czech engineers in 1957 and shut by the Taliban in 1995.

Hopes and fears for jobs as Afghan cement factory reopens

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