Roman Architectural and Marine Concrete in the News

Swansea lagoon should use'Roman-style' concrete

BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38609512

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/bbc/15999af3a15e4a53?projector=1

The secret ingredient behind Rome's lasting monuments

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/16/the-secret-ingredient-behind-romes-lasting-monuments/?utm_term=.83bdf8a6d0b0

Back to the future with Roman Architectural Concrete

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2014/12/15/roman-architectural-concrete/

Building for Eternity, the History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/building-for-eternity.html

There exists beneath the waters of the Mediterranean the physical remnants of a vast maritime infrastructure of pyroclastic rock concrete, a building material invented by Romans on a grand scale to construct harbor installations to sustain and connect the western world’s first global empire and economy...

To improve concrete, do as the Romans did http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/06/04/roman-concrete/ Roman Seawater Concrete Holds the Secret to Cutting Carbon Emissions http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=28432&preview=true