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  • Plant-Based Rigid Foam: Use in the Construction Industry
    Article - 7 Jan 2022
    Today, a new breed of plant-based rigid foam products has entered the market, allowing developers to make use of the desirable characteristics of rigid foam without the environmental downsides.
  • Implementing Eco Homes
    Article - 4 Jan 2022
    An eco-house is a house that is designed in such a way that it is environmentally friendly. It is built with consideration of technology and materials that reduce both its carbon footprint and energy...
  • Elemental Analysis of Trace Elements in Fly Ash
    Article - 12 Feb 2020
    Thermal power stations produce electricity through coal combustion, but the process also results in huge amounts of waste known as fly ash.
  • Can Buildings be Developed to Resist Aircraft Impact?
    Article - 29 Jan 2020
    The World Trade Center’s Twin Towers were built to withstand aircraft crashing into them, suggested a panel on the top floor visitor center.
  • How are Ceramics Used in Construction?
    Article - 14 Nov 2019
    Ceramic materials including brick, porcelain, and cement have been used to construct buildings for millennia, and are still some of the most widely used construction materials today.
  • Improving Bridge Construction with Fiber-Reinforced Polymers
    Article - 8 Oct 2019
    Fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) is a composite material that is constructed of a polymer matrix reinforced with fibres such as glass or carbon.
  • Building Innovative Car Parks
    Article - 27 Aug 2019
    Cities are growing rapidly around the world, and with greater populations come more and more passenger cars that need to be parked.
  • Industrial Hemp as a Building Material
    Article - 8 Jul 2019
    The construction industry needs to reduce its environmental impact for sustainable development. How could industrial hemp be used as an alternative a to traditional building material?
  • How Do Earthquake Resistant Buildings Work?
    Article - 18 May 2019
    An earthquake moves the ground, both vertically and horizontally, beneath a building; typically as a sequence of shock waves radiated from an epicentre at brief intervals, like ripples emanating from...
  • Building Homes to Protect Against Earthquakes
    Article - 3 Apr 2019
    The seismic mitigation of buildings has been a challenge for engineers since the construction of the first two-story structure.
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.

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