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  • Traditional Build Advocate Hanson, Fights Back At OFFSITE2005
    News - 5 Apr 2005
    Hanson, the UK's largest brick and block manufacturer, is tackling the main areas of criticism against traditional building methods - speed and quality of build - head on by developing its own...
  • Experts Warn Ecosystem Changes Will Continue to Worsen, Putting Global Development Goals At Risk
    News - 31 Mar 2005
    A landmark study released Wednesday reveals that approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem services that support life on Earth – such as fresh water, capture fisheries, air and water regulation,...
  • Modern Methods of Construction for Housing - HomeBond
    News - 15 Mar 2005
    The buoyant Irish residential housing market has set new challenges for builders and developers, including finding more efficient methods of construction, meeting tightening performance and...
  • Single Block Solution For House Builders
    News - 11 Mar 2005
    The recent Government revisions to Part E and Part L of the Building Regulations have proven to be an opportunity for builders using Thermalite’s popular Shield block. For this reason,...
  • New Improved Joint Masonry
    News - 18 Jan 2005
    In light of the gaining popularity of Thin Joint Masonry, Thermalite has produced a new guide, offering over twenty pages of essential information and technical advice for specifiers and contractors...
  • BAE Systems Develop Wallpaper Based on Stealth Bomber Technology
    News - 21 Jun 2004
    Using technology derived from Stealth Bombers, BAE Systems have developed a wallpaper that is able to provide Wi-Fi network security by blocking wireless traffic. However, it is also able to allow...
  • New use for waste carpet
    News - 15 Jun 2004
    Researchers at the Bolton Institute and the University of Bradford have found a way to reuse £70 million worth of waste carpet currently going to landfill every year. At present around 7% of...
  • A brick that cures sick, noisy buildings
    News - 9 Jun 2004
    A breakthrough in sustainable office and house design has been invented in Sydney, Australia “Silenceair looks like a transparent brick but it’s a high-tech solution to one of the...
  • Sick Buildings = Sick Workforce
    News - 28 May 2004
    A new study in the use of ultraviolet radiation in office ventilation systems could cut the sickness suffered by millions of office workers worldwide by 20 per cent. While specific causes of Sick...
  • The Building Centre's 'Essential Guides' Series
    News - 28 May 2004
    Responding to the overwhelming demand for home improvement information, The Building Centre has published its series of 'Essential Guides'. Each project specific guide has been designed to...
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.