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Fire-retardant mycelium material
Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, created a sustainable, scalable, and safe-fire-retardant material made of pure mycelium. Mycelium is the name for the root system of mushrooms. It is an up-and-coming material for insulation ...
Read more >Greener timber construction using AI
Carlo Ratti from Carlo Ratti Associati launched a new start-up along with Cambridge graduate Mykola Murashko called Maestro, which aims to reduce the waste in the production of mass timber, for greener timber construction. With ...
Read more >A temporary overnight location made of canvas and wood
Dutch architects Floor Skrabanja and Fé Ramakers designed an overnight location sustainable canvas and wood as part of a project celebrating the 200th anniversary of the city of Veenhuizen, the Netherlands. Called De Vooruitkijker (‘The ...
Read more >A smart 3D printed concrete wall
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, developed the first 3D printed piece of concrete infrastructure used on a National Highways project. The structure is a type of retaining wall known as a headwall and ...
Read more >A ‘living façade’ made of aluminium panels
The National Biodiversity Pavilion in Mexico City, designed by architect Fernanda Ahumada and Studio FR-EE, features a façade of moving aluminium panels that respond to light and wind. The building, located at the National Autonomous ...
Read more >After solar panels, now rain panels?
A team of researchers developed an alternative to the solar panel, which harvests energy from raindrops. Water is already used in the energy transition to generate renewable energy, in the form of dams and wave ...
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