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Cities forgo wrecking balls and order ‘deconstruction' of old buildings, instead
The construction industry creates about 600 million tons of trash each year, more than twice the amount of everyday garbage ...
‘The house was tilting’: Tenant’s escape as state houses await fate two years after floods
Four state houses that started to float in the Auckland Anniversary weekend flooding two years ago are still propped up with ...
Breakthrough materials with steel-strength, light as foam, could make powerful planes
Nano-architected materials are made of tiny building blocks or repeating units measuring a few hundred nanometres in size — ...
Portland State University plans to build 550-bed student housing building
The six-to-seven-story building would feature private bathrooms, classroom space, study lounges, a community kitchen and ...
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Strong as steel, light as foam: High-performance, nano-architected materials
Researchers have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam. The team describes how they made nanomaterials with ...