Materials Archives - Page 7 of 12

“The world needs cement” says concrete industry decarbonisation chief

December 15, 2022 Nat Barker 0

Concrete will remain the world’s dominant construction material over biomaterials such as timber as the world transitions to net-zero, claims GCCA chief executive Thomas Guillot. The second most widely used material on the planet after water, concrete is produced by a massively polluting industry that accounts for around seven per cent of the world’s carbon

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Construction commences on BIG and ICON’s community of 3D-printed homes in Texas

November 11, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Construction is underway on a community of 100 3D-printed homes in Texas co-designed by Danish architecture studio BIG and American construction technology company ICON. Sited in Georgetown – a municipality outside of Austin – the project aims to be the largest community in the world built using 3D printing technology. Nicknamed Wolf Ranch, the community

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Six material innovations aimed at slashing concrete’s outsized carbon footprint

October 21, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

After Seratech’s carbon-neutral cement won the 2022 Obel Award, Dezeen has rounded up six ways in which researchers are working to decarbonise concrete – the single most polluting building material in the world. Currently, concrete’s key ingredient cement is responsible for around eight per cent of global emissions, surpassing all other materials except oil, gas

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The Circus Canteen interior is a “collage of unwanted items”

October 21, 2022 Jane Englefield 0

Local studio Multitude of Sins has created an eclectic restaurant interior in Bangalore out of a mishmash of reclaimed materials, including discarded bicycle bells and cassette tape boxes. Officially called Big Top but known as The Circus Canteen, the restaurant is shortlisted in the sustainable interior category for a 2022 Dezeen Award. Multitude of Sins

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The Circus Canteen interior is a “collage of unwanted items”

October 21, 2022 Jane Englefield 0

Local studio Multitude of Sins has created an eclectic restaurant interior in Bangalore out of a mishmash of reclaimed materials, including discarded bicycle bells and cassette tape boxes. Officially called Big Top but known as The Circus Canteen, the restaurant is shortlisted in the sustainable interior category for a 2022 Dezeen Award. Multitude of Sins

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Fiandre covers Armenian church in porcelain slabs printed with 1.5 million unique motifs

October 17, 2022 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: Fiandre Architectural Surfaces porcelain slabs, digitally printed with 1.5 million icons, cover the facade of an Armenian church in Texas designed by New York-based architect David Hotson. For the facade of Saint Sarkis Armenian Church in Carrollton, Texas, architect David Hotson and Yerevan-trained architectural designer Ani Sahakyan worked closely with Italian architectural surface manufacturer

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Seratech carbon-neutral concrete wins Obel Award 2022

October 17, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

British company Seratech has won the architecture-focused Obel Award with its prototype carbon-neutral concrete, which it says is low-cost and easy to scale. Founded by PhD students Sam Draper and Barney Shanks to commercialise their research at the Imperial College London, Seratech replaces part of the cement content of concrete with a type of silica

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Hannah begins construction on “first multi-storey 3D-printed house in the US”

October 4, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Ithaca, New York-based design studio Hannah has begun work on Cores, a building in Houston that it says will be the first multi-storey 3D-printed structure to be completed in the United States. The hybrid structure is being constructed from 3D-printed concrete combined with wood framing and was designed as a multi-storey single-family home. With 4,000

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University of Virginia 3D-prints living soil walls that sprout greenery

September 5, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

University of Virginia 3D-printed soil structures

University of Virginia researchers have invented a method of 3D printing with seed-impregnated soil, which could be used to create walls and roofs teeming with plant life. Prototypes built by the researchers start off looking like ordinary raw-earth structures. But over the course of a few days, they sprout and become covered in greenery, leading

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ETH Zurich creates dramatically contoured concrete slab ceiling

July 8, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Researchers at technology university ETH Zurich have created a deeply ridged ceiling called the HiRes Concrete Slab, which they claim saves energy while offering a spectacular aesthetic. The HiRes Concrete Slab is a prototype installed at ETH Zurich’s NEST research building in the Swiss city of Dübendorf, where it forms the ceiling of an office

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