Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore, ...
As pedestrians head down Halsted Street in the Fulton Market district, a spiral structure in the middle of the Mews Pedway invites them to walk toward its center. At a glance, the coil seems to have ...
They’re like children’s building blocks, except these ones are designed to construct real houses. German start-up Polycare says its Polyblocks – made from artificial resin – provide an environmentally ...
UConn is using CarbonBuilt’s low-carbon concrete blocks made with up to 50% less cement, cutting CO2 emissions and supporting LEED-friendly construction.
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US designs carbon-negative enzyme-based building material to replace concrete
US team has developed Enzymatic Structural Material, a carbon-negative alternative to concrete that turns CO2 into a ...
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Brickmaking keeps eating farmland as Bangladesh misses clean-build goal
By Abu Siddique In 2019, Bangladesh set a target to end the use of traditional bricks and switch to concrete blocks in all ...
Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world, but it comes at a huge environmental cost. Engineers in Japan have developed a new technique to make concrete by recycling waste ...
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