Concrete Solutions

By Matt Shipman 

People are always looking for ways to make something less expensive, longer lasting or more environmentally friendly – and a team of researchers at NC State is figuring out how to do all of those things at once for some of the largest, most common buildings found anywhere: parking garages.

These advances are important, because parking garages seem to be everywhere. Whenever a new shopping center, office or apartment building is built, you can bet a new garage is being built too. And now those buildings can be made for less money and will last longer.

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