An experienced construction executive, Ted Vitale has led a leading construction organization in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for over 15 years. During this time, he has provided construction and construction management services to various sectors, including designer retail, restaurant and hospitality developers, and aviation retail. Ted Vitale keeps up with the latest innovations in the construction industry.
Construction teams in the United States increasingly turn to innovative solutions that reduce costs over the long term and promote sustainability in the industry. Two such examples are self-healing concrete and transparent aluminum.
Self-healing concrete is concrete that repairs its cracks. When applied to a building's walls and floors, this material boosts the durability of the building. All self-healing concrete has nutrients and a healing agent, a mixture of bacterial spores and calcium lactate. When cracks occur, the bacteria feed on the nutrients and grow to fill the cracks. Self-healing concrete is less vulnerable to freeze-thaw damage and gives structures a longer life span while minimizing maintenance costs.
Transparent aluminum is a colorless aluminum that looks like typical transparent glass while exhibiting much greater strength. A transparent aluminum with a thickness much less than 0.14 feet can withstand a. 50-caliber bullet traveling at 2700 feet per second. This material is useful for fabricating light and durable structures.
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