These Taiwanese Companies Are Turning Waste Into Building Materials
Kuo has developed a product to help tackle the toll humidity can take on buildings in Taiwan. The natural stucco, made from ...
Former Gates Foundation leader lands $1.8M for engineered bamboo building materials startup
Launching one’s first startup — maybe a domestic software company, for example — could certainly be daunting. But creating a ...
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Reinventing the world’s favorite building material
Concrete is Earth’s second-most-used material behind water, creating about four times more CO2 emissions than planes. Some companies are trying to revolutionize the industry.
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One dies as another building collapses in Rivers
A two-storey building under construction on Monday collapsed in the Egbelu Mgbaraja area of Ogbogoro Community, Obio/Akpor ...
World's first wood-panelled satellite launched into space
The world's first wood-panelled satellite has been launched into space to test the suitability of timber as a renewable ...
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Building collapse kills one, injures many in Rivers
This comes barely one week after the collapse of a 3-storey building at the Iriebe axis of the same LGA, although no life ...
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Surfacedesign repurposes building materials and coastal rocks for Bayfront Park in San Francisco
On an industrial site in San Francisco Surfacedesign has designed Bayfront Park. The park project reused building materials and natural elements.
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Student startup transforms beer industry waste into innovative alternative: 'We saw a huge potential'
The war in Ukraine has shown that warfare changes by the day. Origin, a new defense tech startup out of Latvia, specializes ...
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Green Building Trends in Africa: Africa’s urbanization provides the opportunity to embrace Green Building (By Julien Fouilliart)
Urbanization provides an opportunity for countries across Africa to embrace green building practices, access available ...
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Building the materials for the next generation of nuclear reactor
“This material is believed to be a good component to be used in the reactor,” Hu said. “But if after radiation, the hardness or the tensile property changes, it might be a concern in a reactor after ...
Microsoft tries to whittle down its carbon footprint by building data centers with engineered timber
These sheets of cross-laminated timber will be used in the construction of two Microsoft data centers. (Microsoft Photo) The ...