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Nuclear Engineering International15h
Cooling tower work begins at Leningrad 7
The construction of a ring foundation for an evaporative cooling tower has begun at the construction site of unit ...
Kimberley Bulletin1d
UBC Okanagan construction site to reach records with concrete pour
Seventy concrete trucks will be lined up at the construction site of the University of B.C. Okanagan's downtown Kelowna ...
IIT Guwahati researchers study effect of 3D printed concrete walls on building's thermal performance
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati researchers have studied the effect of lattice-patterned 3d-printed concrete walls on a building's thermal performance. The study, led by Dr Biranchi Panda, ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
New, ‘Living’ Building Material Made From Fungi and Bacteria Could Pave the Way to Self-Healing Structures
Researchers are developing the biomaterial as a more environmentally friendly alternative to concrete, but any wide-scale use ...
This striking building is for a pipe company, and it’s built entirely from pipes
Architecture firm KWK Promes transformed pipes from utilitarian necessity into aesthetic material with the creation of this ...
MIT Technology Review3d
Cheaper buildings, courtesy of mud
Builders pour concrete into temporary wooden molds. MIT researchers invented a way to make them out of on-site soil instead.