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Exploring Self-Healing Concrete: A Prospective Construction Material in Jamaica

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Apr 05, 2015
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Exploring Self-Healing Concrete: A Prospective Construction Material in Jamaica

Concrete has a bad rap over the years around the world and in Jamaica, but bacteria may provide an answer.

What happens when you introduce green technology which embeds self-activating bacteria into concrete? It becomes self-healing and three UK universities are actively working towards bringing this science to life.

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