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Paper or Plastic?
Australian company Zeoform has created a biodegradeable plastic with nothing more than recycled paper waste and water. Someday it may clad one of your projects. Cellulose is the most pervasive natural...
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Out of Thin Air
“Design similes” emulate biological processes for environmental benefit in the production of everyday goods. In recent years, the desire to emulate botanical processes for environmental benefit has...
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Iron Man
Steel is the world’s most widely recycled material, but its high embodied energy is roughly equivalent to that of concrete. A new method to extract iron from virgin resources might give the metal...
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Blaine Brownell Interviewed by Katie Weeks in EcoBuilding Pulse magazine
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Star-Crossed Paths
Pro-Teq Surfacing’s photoluminescent finish gives paving new life in a brilliant way. Illuminating the outdoors can be a good—and necessary—thing in areas of pedestrian and vehicular traffic. While...
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Highways of the Sun
The federally funded prototype project could one day feed the grid and power electric vehicles. Solar power has an area problem. Unlike fossil fuels, which pack large amounts of energy into small...
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A Coating that Detects Defects in Concrete
The conductive coating spots surface-level cracks in concrete. Monitoring the integrity of heavy-use infrastructure, such as bridges and tunnels, is critical to maintaining a resilient built...
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Made in Germany by Robots
Stuttgart University employs robots to fabricate the shell of a pavilion about innovative construction methods. Robots are gaining traction when it comes to the highly precise construction of...
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Visible Green
New material opportunities in sustainable design Throughout history, the designed environment has been visibly influenced by transformations in technology, culture, and the natural world. Historians...
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Five Technologies to Watch in 2015
Interactive surfaces, soft machines, and self-healing products are among the developments in architectural technology expected to continue this year. In 1988, the author Tom Forester claimed in The...
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