Construction

Adding a small amount of discarded cigarette butts to bricks during manufacture reduces the energy required to fire them and increases their insulation properties A...

Martian Concrete could be key to future human colonisation on Mars As engineers continue to evolve modern concrete on Earth, some materials scientists have taken...

A weekly round up of news for digital construction professionals  RMIT University researchers have shown how recycled cigarette stubs can be manufactured into bricks, saving...

Using the connected hardhats on a construction site has the unintended benefit of quickly identifying who an infected worker has been in contact with during...

Properties include high optical transmittance and having low thermal conductivity Wood is the most-used bio-base material in buildings, with its use experiencing an upward trend...

A weekly round up of news for digital construction professionals  The construction projects market in the UAE is to be worth AED 279bn ($76bn) by...

In our continuing series on research into novel construction materials, DC Hub looks at a the Cabkoma strand rod, a lightweight, carbon fibre material used...

Light-generating cement works by absorbing solar energy during the day and irradiating light energy at night

A weekly round up of news relevant to digital construction professionals  Drones are being used to inspect the UAE’s Barakah nuclear power plant, improving workplace...

DC Hub interviewed Alain Waha, Head of BIM and Digital at BuroHappold, to discuss the idea of technology with a purpose, driving broad support for...

A weekly round up of news relevant to digital construction professionals  A US research team is investigating the use of different soil types as an...

A research team in the US are investigating the use of soil as an alternative to concrete in 3D printed buildings. If successful, they say...