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Sheet material made of Japanese knotweed
Called Why Knot, the sheet material is made of Japanese knotweed, an invasive plant in the Netherlands. Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) is a fast-growing plant and considered to be one of the most invasive exotic ...
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Sound insulating screws
Swedish company Akoustos, a spin-off company of Malmö University, developed a sound-absorbing screw, which provides both a resilient connection between panels and studs while also absorbing airborne and impact sound. Disturbing noise from neighbours and ...
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Using tree forks as loadbearing joints
A team of MIT researchers developed a method that enables architects to use usually discarded tree forks as load-bearing joints in structures. While wood is being increasingly used in construction, generally, only the straight parts ...
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The world’s first ‘smart circular bridge’
Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) leads a EU project to build three city bridges made from a biocomposite material consisting of flax and bioresin. The first bridge is now in place in Almere, the Netherlands. ...
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A CLT pavilion to celebrate 500 years of social housing
Rotterdam-based architectural firm MVRDV designed a house-shaped pavilion made entirely of CLT to celebrate the world’s oldest social housing complex’s 500th birthday. The Fuggerei in Augsburg, Germany, is the world’s oldest social housing complex. For ...
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A wooden dome made only from waste
A research group from ETH Zurich used digital fabrication methods to make a wooden geodesic dome entirely from demolition waste. The waste was sourced at an old car depot in Geneva that was scheduled for ...
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