UK’s first self-healing concrete tested in Wales

Posted on 29 Oct 2015 by Victoria Fitzgerald

The first major trial of self-healing concrete in the UK, led by a team of researchers from Cardiff University, is being undertaken at a site in the South Wales Valleys.

The project – Materials for Life (M4L) – is piloting three separate concrete-healing technologies for the first time in real-world settings, with a view to incorporating them into a single system that could be used to automatically repair concrete in the built environment. The overall aim of the Cardiff-led project is to develop a single…

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