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  • The Rise of Composite Materials in Advanced Construction
    Article - 3 Jan 2024
    Composite materials are those constructed from two or more constituent materials, generating novel or enhanced properties such as mechanical and thermal resistance, vibration damping, corrosion...
  • An Overview of Thermal Energy Storage in Concrete
    Article - 29 Nov 2023
    Concrete is among the oldest construction materials. With the rapid expansion of cities and industries in the modern era, energy demand has increased manifold. Governments all over the world are...
  • Why Use Carbon Fiber Reinforced Concrete (CFRC)?
    Article - 1 Nov 2023
    Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world due to its cost-effectiveness, abundance of raw materials, facile manufacturing, and adequate physical and mechanical properties.
  • Sustainable Challenges in the Cement Industry
    Article - 28 Aug 2023
    In this interview, Murielle Goubard, the Global Sector Manager for Building Materials at Malvern Panalytical, talks to AzoBuild about sustainable challenges in the cement industry.
  • Advances in Concrete Reinforcement Techniques
    Article - 12 Apr 2023
    Concrete is the most commonly used construction material for key infrastructure and buildings, but pure concrete cannot meet the stringent demands of the construction industry. To improve its strength...
  • What is Biochar Cladding?
    Article - 30 Aug 2022
    The primary application of biochar, a highly porous substance made from plant debris, is to improve soil. However, more recent breakthroughs have paved the way for its use as cladding material.
  • Analysis of the Effect of Vegetation Coverage on Urban Energy Consumption
    Article - 25 May 2022
    The most intuitive spatial aspect of urbanization is that man-made space replaces natural space, resulting in an urban heat island that threatens human thermal comfort, health, and energy...
  • Testing the Durability of Seawater Sea-Sand Concrete
    Article - 28 Apr 2022
    The use of recycled materials and seawater sea-sand concrete (SSC) in building has increased in recent decades due to a scarcity of raw materials. Because seawater and sea sand are plentiful marine...
  • A New Approach to Urban Building Energy Models and Building Energy Consumption
    Article - 31 Mar 2022
    Cities release 70% of CO2 emissions and utilize two-thirds of global energy production, while buildings consume more than one-third of global final energy consumption; thus, growing energy-usage...
  • EU Mies Award Winner: Lacol's La Borda Cooperative Housing
    Article - 10 Feb 2022
    AZoBuild spoke to Lacol Architecture Cooperative about their La Borda Cooperative Housing project in Barcelona, Spain. This project has been shortlisted for the 2022 EU Prize for Contemporary...
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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