Infrastructure

Self-healing concrete and sweaty roofs: is this the future of buildings?

Labourers work at the construction site of a residential complex on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, June 3, 2015. Investors are hoping that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic reforms and aggressive spending on infrastructure will take the under achieving economy to another level.

We already have the technology to construct better buildings. Now we need to use it. Image: REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee

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