As 3-D printing revolutionizes manufacturing, new possibilities for cities emerge. Shutterstock Sylvie Albert, University of Winnipeg; Jeremy Millard, University of Bradford, and Tomas Diez, Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña (IAAC) The Fabrication City...
By its very nature, the construction industry has a very large ecological footprint At bauma, exhibitors are going to present innovations towards sustainability, resource conservation and environmental protection. Some of the solutions have also been...
Solar researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have investigated how solar energy can replace fossil fuels for the cement production process. The initial manufacturing stage, the calcination...
The jockeying for position in the 3D printed building world intensifies. A consortium of European companies has started the first house 3D printing factory, in Eindhoven. From a few isolated startups such as Enrico...
At a concrete plant in San Francisco, the concrete loaded into ready-mix trucks now includes captured CO2. The plant, owned by Central Concrete, a northern California business unit of U.S. Concrete, recently adopted technology...
Construction equipment manufacturers are innovating globally to cut their carbon footprint Poor air quality is the fourth-highest cause of death worldwide, according to the WHO. But while road transport has attracted most attention, less...
