As pedestrians head down Halsted Street in the Fulton Market district, a spiral structure in the middle of the Mews Pedway invites them to walk toward its center. At a glance, the coil seems to have ...

Prometheus Materials has raised $8 million in series A funding for its algae-based cement. The firm says it will use the funds to start commercial production of precast cement-based items such as ...

Cement production accounts for 8 percent of annual CO2 emissions and consumes 9 percent of annual industrial water on a global basis, making reducing cement’s impact on climate change a huge challenge ...

People walking through a pedestrian passageway in Fulton Market may pass what they think is a wall of concrete block, but in fact they’re seeing a sustainable alternative made from algae that a ...

Wil V. Srubar III is the common denominator for cotton, cattle, the Houston Astros, the Dept. of Defense, micro algae and Prometheus Materials. If he had not grown up on a cotton farm-cattle ranch, he ...

LONGMONT, Colo. — If you look out your window right now, you'll probably see something made of concrete. It's everywhere. Your driveway, parking structures, buildings; the list goes on. And that's a ...