Thirty-seven years after the District purchased the defunct McMillan Sand Filtration Site, where rows of ivy-covered concrete silos became D.C. icons along North Capitol Street, the sprawling ...

Newly elected Select Board member Tony Pagliarulo is proposing an ad hoc committee made up of the Select Board, Board of ...

Cement—the powdery binder that holds the sand or crushed stone in concrete ... so it is uniform throughout and is then stored in a silo. It will be packed into bags for retail sale or loaded ...

This strange white paste might not look like much, but it might help solve the sand shortage, while making the cement manufacturing process capture carbon dioxide instead of emitting it.

The terminal, which is operated by Capital Sand Company ... probably a June 1 startup date." "The silos will be used to store Portland cement," he continued. "We barge the cement to our terminal ...

This 1925 cover image depicts a concrete mixing plant—one of three—for a vital project in downtown Chicago, in which South ...

The world's reliance on concrete, the second most consumed material after water, is leading to an environmental and resource crisis, with sand mining rates outstripping natural replenishment.