University of Waterloo13d
Waterloo Architecture
The University of Waterloo School of Architecture is a leader in design education and research. Offering a fully cooperative professional program, Waterloo Architecture is the only Canadian school of ...
C&EN19d
High-Throughput Screening of 6858 Compounds for Zinc-Ion Battery Cathodes via Hybrid Machine Learning Optimization
Interdisciplinary Research Center for Construction and Building Materials, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Laser Research Group, Physics Department, King Fahd ...
Frontiers20d
Thermal insulation material produced from recycled materials for building applications: cellulose and rice husk-based material
Construction materials derived from agro-industrial waste are increasingly attractive in the building sector, due to their sustainability and lower environmental impact. Hence, in recent years ...
The Hindu26d
Burari building collapse: At least two killed, 12 others rescued
Two people have died in the four-storey building collapse in north Delhi’s Burari area, police said on Tuesday (January 28, 2025). The newly constructed building near Oscar Public School crashed ...
Physics World27d
Alternative building materials could store massive amounts of carbon dioxide
Keeping the carbon: Biochar can be added to cement to sequester carbon within concrete. (Courtesy: Sabbie Miller) Replacing conventional building materials with alternatives that sequester carbon ...
business27d
Exploring the impact of strategic sourcing of local building materials: A necessary condition to reducing housing and construction cost
Will the affordable housing dream ever going to materialize in Ghana where several attempts to build affordable housing units for the citizenry have failed for several decades?. The evidence is as ...
C&EN27d
Synthesis of Telechelic Isotactic Polypropylenes for Circular Polypropylene-like Materials via Chain Transfer Polymerization
State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China ...
Forbes28d
Why Older Homes Burn So Fast—And The Cost Of Building Ones That Don’t
added only 2 to 13 percent to construction costs—and that adding “optimum” wildfire building materials like metal roofs cost $18,180 to $27,080 more. Meanwhile, the National Bureau of ...
SciTech Daily29d
Building the Future: Materials That Absorb Carbon and Combat Climate Change
see Innovative Materials Turning Buildings Into Massive Carbon Sinks. Reference: “Building materials could store more than 16 billion tonnes of CO 2 annually” by Elisabeth Van Roijen, Sabbie A. Miller ...
thecooldown29d
Researchers design mind-blowing construction material to replace steel: 'This technology holds a lot of promise'
Researchers at the University of Maine have managed to 3D print an organic building material with the strength of steel. The SM2ART Nfloor is printed as a single piece in about 30 hours, which is a ...
Reuters1mon
Los Angeles wildfires spark interest in adobe, natural building materials
Natural building using less flammable materials gain interest post-wildfires Officials open to alternative building materials like adobe Challenges include financing and insurance for new ...