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The built environment is the fastest-growing material consumer but it also offers the most potential for improvement, according to a UN resource report.

Insulating structures from 3D printed waste

ETH Zurich has published details of new research into lightweight building components produced using 3D printing. Led by doctoral architecture researcher Patrick Bedarf, the Airlements project centers on cement-free mineral foams derived from recycled industrial waste. Working within the...

Discover Airlements, a project that uses moldless fabrication and 3D printing to create monolithic, lightweight, and insulated wall construction.

2022 was another productive year in laboratories across the United States and beyond, as colleges, manufacturers, and startups strove to challenge the orthodoxy of construction materials. While teams of students and researchers at institutions from Virginia Tech to ETH Zurich sought to push the...

After Seratech's carbon-neutral cement won the 2022 Obel Award, Dezeen has rounded up six ways that researchers are working to decarbonise concrete.

AI concrete startup AICrete has announced that it has raised $4 million in seed funding led by venture capital firms CLEAR Ventures and VoLo Earth Ventures, along with Cortical Ventures.  AICrete is a recipe-as-a-service platform that optimizes materials for cleaner and more cost-efficient...

The 3D printed foam was produced in an attempt to reduce labour and waste on site when it comes to building geometrically complex formwork for cast in

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ETH Zurich has unveiled details of their latest investigation into advanced building materials in construction. The project, titled FoamWork, explores how foam 3D printing can assist in creating concrete formworks. The initiative saw ETH Zurich’s Digital Building Technologies team work in...