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Work Continues on Self Healing Concrete

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Green-building startup bioMason has developed concrete that uses bacterial colonies to "grow" bricks. It was one of the award-winning entries in the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Challenge last November. Meanwhile, researchers in the Netherlands are at work on concrete with a "self-healing propensity" that could reduce "the need for expensive and time-consuming repair work," and could eventually lead to buildings needing less steel reinforcement, according to this article

Source: The February 3 AGC SmartBrief e-newsletter which continued an article from the Web site Sourceable.
 

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