Bali goes green with bamboo buildings
Strong, light and cheaper than steel poles, bamboo is ubiquitous across Asia as scaffolding.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 10, 2012
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Building with waste and recycled material
A residential module fully constructed from reusable, recyclable, and compostable materials: This is the premise for the newest unit in NEST, the modular research and innovation building run by Empa and Eawag in Dübendorf. ...
Engineering
Feb 9, 2018
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Buildings made of wood instead of cement and steel could be important global carbon sinks
A material revolution replacing cement and steel in urban construction with wood can have double benefits for climate stabilization, a new study shows. First, it can avoid greenhouse gas emissions from cement and steel production. ...
Environment
Jan 27, 2020
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3-D printing 'greener' buildings using local soil
The construction industry is currently facing two major challenges: the demand for sustainable infrastructure and the need to repair deteriorating buildings, bridges and roads. While concrete is the material of choice for ...
Materials Science
Aug 20, 2020
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Ordered Water: Just how much water is there in calcined gypsum?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gypsum was used as a building material in antiquity and is still widely used as a binder in plaster, drywall, and spackling paste. Known as dihydrate in construction chemistry, gypsum is a water-containing ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 15, 2009
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New bendable cement-free concrete can potentially make safer, long-lasting and greener infrastructure
A new type of concrete that is made out of waste materials and can bend under load has been developed by researchers from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
Materials Science
Mar 4, 2020
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Building on the moon and Mars? You'll need extraterrestrial cement for that
Sustained space exploration will require infrastructure that doesn't currently exist: buildings, housing, rocket landing pads.
Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2022
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How fungi can help create a green construction industry
The world of fungi has attracted a lot of interest and seems to be becoming very fashionable of late. A new exhibition at Somerset House in London, for example, is dedicated to "the remarkable mushroom." No surprise: we're ...
Environment
Feb 4, 2020
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Sustainability of the built environment
In times of limited resources and continued evidence of significant climate change, sustainability is increasingly regarded as a topic of global importance. Consider areas such as design, energy, and materials: These core ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 8, 2015
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Technique enables mass production of custom concrete building components from digital designs
Like other professionals, architects have used computer-aided design (CAD) software in their work for decades. Typically, the resulting digital files are converted to hard-copy plans, which are then used to support traditional ...
Engineering
May 16, 2012
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