Tag: Buildings
3D printing promises to transform architecture forever – and create forms...
James Rose, University of Tennessee
In architecture, new materials rarely emerge.
For centuries, wood, masonry and...
3D printing promises to transform architecture forever – and create forms...
James Rose, University of Tennessee
In architecture, new materials rarely emerge.
For centuries, wood, masonry and...
Cuba’s post-revolution architecture offers a blueprint for how to build more...
M. Wesam Al Asali, Princeton University
Around the world, there’s a conjoined crisis of climate change and housing shortages...
Electric heat pumps use much less energy than furnaces, and can...
Robert Brecha, University of Dayton
To help curb climate change, President Biden has set a goal of lowering U.S....
Clever chemistry turns ordinary bricks into electricity storage devices
Julio M. D'Arcy, Washington University in St Louis
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
In my synthetic chemistry lab,...
Buildings consume lots of energy – here’s how to design whole...
Charles F. Kutscher, University of Colorado Boulder
Although the coronavirus pandemic has dominated recent headlines, climate change hasn’t gone away. Many experts are calling for...
Buildings have their own microbiomes – we’re striving to make them...
Kevin Van den Wymelenberg, University of Oregon; Leslie Dietz, University of Oregon, and Mark Fretz, University of Oregon
Architects and building engineers strive to create...
Buildings grown by bacteria — new research is finding ways to...
Wil Srubar, University of Colorado Boulder
Buildings are not unlike a human body. They have bones and skin; they breathe. Electrified, they consume energy, regulate...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
