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  • EU Mies Award Shortlist: OOPEAA’s Tikkurila Church and Housing
    Article - 11 Mar 2022
    AZoBuild spoke to Anssi Lassila from OOPEAA about their Tikkurila Church and Housing project, which was shortlisted for the EU Mies van der Rohe Award for contemporary architecture. The building is an...
  • Laminated Veneer Lumber – from Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation
    Article - 24 May 2007
    LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) is quite similar to the vertically laminated glulam beams, but is made in a similar manner to plywood.
  • What is Mycocrete?
    Article - 8 Aug 2023
    Mycocrete is an innovative material that could potentially help solve key issues facing the construction industry in the 21st century. This article will provide an overview of this technology and...
  • Advances in Concrete Reinforcement Techniques
    Article - 19 Apr 2023
    Concrete is the most commonly used construction material for key infrastructure and buildings, but pure concrete cannot meet the stringent demands of the construction industry. To improve its strength...
  • Using Ceramic Waste as a Concrete Aggregate
    Article - 13 Jun 2022
    At present, ceramic waste use is limited in the construction industry due to a lack of understanding. In fact, ceramic waste matches or can improve the performance of other common aggregates used for...
  • Historic and Current Use of Blue Clay Brick
    Article - 17 Nov 2021
    A research paper published online in October 2021 in Scientific Reports has considered current research into ancient masonry and studied blue brick in a modern building in Kaifeng, China. The results...
  • The Use of Graphene Oxide for the Protection of Concrete
    Article - 3 Jun 2020
    Concrete researchers have recently focused on using nanomaterials to develop superior coating materials. In particular, graphene oxide, produced by the chemical exfoliation of graphite, has emerged as...
  • Using Graphene Oxide as Thermally Insulating Foam in Houses
    Article - 7 Feb 2020
    Graphene is the miracle material that is predicted to change the world or at least change the materials we currently use.
  • How Do Residential Solar Panels Work?
    Article - 27 Aug 2019
    Dotted all around the UK are homes with solar panels affixed to their roofs, and together they generate around 6.14 GW of power.
  • What is Green Urban Architecture?
    Article - 10 Jul 2019
    According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, buildings are responsible for 39% of total energy use. What is green urban architecture and could it allow cities to expand without the harmful...
Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Design

Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Design

With an increase in the pressure to decarbonize the built environment and build more carbon-neutral buildings, the reduction of embodied carbon has become of great importance.

Calcium Carbonate Concrete: Building on Recycling

Calcium Carbonate Concrete: Building on Recycling

AZoBuild talks to Professors Noguchi and Maruyama about their research and development of Calcium Carbonate Concrete (CCC), a new material that has the potential to cause a sustainable revolution in the construction industry.

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