Earthquake-resistant concrete keeps walls from falling

While we may hear about ways of constructing new buildings to make them earthquake-resistant, what about all the buildings that are standing already? Well, that’s where a new concrete developed at Canada’s University of British Columbia (UBC) comes in. Sprayed onto existing walls, it reportedly allows them to withstand tremors that would otherwise reduce them to rubble.

Ben Coxworth

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