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  • 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...
  • Applying IR Spectroscopy Techniques to Characterize Cement
    Article - 27 Feb 2020
    Infrared and other spectroscopic methods have become an effective, non-destructive, and simple approach to examining the make-up of cement materials.
  • The Science Behind 3D Printing in Construction
    Article - 12 Feb 2020
    Recent reports have highlighted that 3D printing in the construction market is experiencing rapid growth.
  • How Do Smart Sensors Improve Construction?
    Article - 8 Oct 2019
    Engineers and contractors are beginning to embrace smart sensors for the numerous advantages they bring to the sector.
  • 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.
  • Industrial Hemp as a Building Material
    Article - 8 Jul 2019
    The construction industry needs to reduce its environmental impact for sustainable development. How could industrial hemp be used as an alternative a to traditional building material?
  • Alternatives to Wooden Frames in Construction
    Article - 21 May 2019
    Wood frames have long been the widely used framing system in the construction industry, largely due to the fact that wood is a relatively easy to source construction material.
  • Voice Activation and the Building Industry
    Article - 9 Apr 2019
    The scientific community has been making leaps and bounds in bringing us new and exciting technology and innovations over the past decades. The early 1900s dream of flying cars may not be that far...
  • Turning Plastic Waste into Building Materials
    Article - 3 Apr 2019
    The devastating environmental effects of plastic waste are very much in the public consciousness.
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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