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  • Why Own a Tiny Home?
    Article - 26 Apr 2022
    There is a small revolution in home design currently happening – the tiny house movement. In an age of increasing urban sprawl and the consequent problems that a burgeoning world population brings,...
  • Straw Buildings: The Revival of Natural Building Materials?
    Article - 22 Nov 2021
    Straw buildings are often associated with times gone by and technologies that we have since surpassed. However, recent years have seen a resurgence in building with this natural material. This revival...
  • Treatments Used to Improve Quality of Building Ceramics
    Article - 20 May 2020
    Modern building ceramics are often treated to achieve a range of special properties and to improve their overall quality.
  • Examining Nanoparticles as Coatings for Construction Materials
    Article - 17 Feb 2020
    The construction industry is benefiting greatly from the rapid advancements in nanotechnology, particularly from the developments happening in the area of nanocoatings.
  • Thin Films in Smart Windows
    Article - 20 Dec 2019
    Smart and connected technologies are beginning to infiltrate all areas of our life. Smart windows are powered by UV light and are coated by thin films.
  • Combining Photovoltaics and Architecture
    Article - 14 Nov 2019
    Architects are facing the fact that solar energy is here to stay and they are having to adopt new designs that incorporate this renewable energy to meet the demand for using solar energy to power...
  • Integration of Photovoltaics in Buildings
    Article - 14 Nov 2019
    Photovoltaic (PV) technology converts solar energy (photons) into usable electric power (electrons), usually through chemical processes in PV cells.
  • Energy Storage and Harvesting in Buildings
    Article - 20 Dec 2019
    Buildings are being built with the capacity to both generate and store their power supply. Energy consumption is currently a major focus of government initiatives worldwide.
  • Hempcrete vs. Concrete
    Article - 8 Jul 2019
    The building and construction industry is moving towards using more sustainable materials. Hempcrete is a building material made from hemp, a plant from a strain of the Cannabis sativa plant species,...
  • Building With Lime
    Article - 8 Jul 2019
    Lime is one of the oldest building materials in existence and can be used to make many different types of mortar. Find out about the different types of lime, including lime putty and hydraulic lime.
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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