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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News tagged with sustainable construction
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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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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Making houses in Sweden with additive manufacturing
In a collaborative project worth SEK 35 million, researchers and external partners are together developing technology to make full-scale 3D prints of cellulos- based material. It is not a matter of small prints – the objective ...
Engineering
Jun 29, 2015
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Research Project: Robotic Fabrication in Timber Construction
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart develop a lightweight timber construction system combining robotic prefabrication with computational design and simulation processes, as well as three-dimensional surveying technologies ...
Engineering
Sep 26, 2013
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Innovation pioneers score world first for sustainable construction with graphene concrete
Manchester innovation pioneers score world first for sustainable construction with graphene concrete.
Materials Science
May 25, 2021
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'New old bricks' for the construction industry
Making bricks is a very resource- and energy-intensive process. Meanwhile, when existing brick buildings are demolished, most of the resulting debris, which can contain many thousands of whole bricks, is sent to landfill ...
Engineering
Sep 17, 2013
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Cracking idea for egg shell recycling gets Food and Drink iNet support at Easter
Scientists and food industry experts are hatching a plan this Easter to turn egg shells into plastics that could be used to manufacture anything from food packaging to construction materials.
Other
Apr 4, 2012
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Marriage of synthetic biology and 3D printing produces programmable living materials
Scientists are harnessing cells to make new types of materials that can grow, repair themselves and even respond to their environment. These solid "engineered living materials" are made by embedding cells in an inanimate ...
Biotechnology
May 1, 2024
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