Building Rubble News Today

Dozens of people remain trapped or unaccounted for after the building collapse in central China on Friday.

Attention because the suspect wearing a black motorcycle helmet was caught, there he is, on security cameras as he made a getaway. he escaped with a pile of casino chips. president obama visited penn state university touting his green jobs initiative. the president said the goal is not to hand out money to those looking for it but to challenge americas greatest minds to come up with solutions for affordable, clean energy alternatives. hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were destroye...

Dishwashers as rubble in haiti. and todays big i, a way to turn that rubble into actual building materials for haiti. and i want to introduce to you from georgia tech, reginald deroach and kimberly curtis. thank you for being here. for those of us who are not builders, i dont understand what the problem is because the rubble obviously came from building rubble obviously came building material. when a building collapses, they dont use that rubble again. youve been working on some way to reuse the...

Square inch strength and more than doubled that strength. we achieved a much stronger material from a relatively weak debris material. >> youre from haiti. >> i am from haiti. >> have you gone back? >> eight times. during my fourth trip, i brought the rubble back to see if we can reuse it. >> what were your thoughts? did you have any sense it had been done before? >> the people were so concerned it was so weak, theres no way recycling it you can get strong concrete. so if you can reuse it, you c...

This is the pursuit of perfection. see what it takes at lexus.com/thehardway. remember the earthquake in ha haiti. 300,000 holmes were destroyed. 30,000 businesses were destroyed. you saw those buildings were not built to withstand an earthquake so theres just rubble all over this. just a year ago last month haiti was hit with one of the most devastating natural disasters ever recorded. that rubble is 20 million cubic yards of rubble. let me give you a sense. its three feet by three feet by th...

With it with the available sand. >> graduate students were crushing it with an ordinary hammer. the material is so weak, youre able to do that. and then using the proper proportions. >> have they started sufficient building? i know that theres temporary housing being built. is there enough going on? >> right now, theyre starting to look at rebuilding, starting to think about recycling, but most of the recycling efforts are using them as fill. you can actually use them in rebuilding homes and bui...