Throughout the Bay Area — from retrofitted schools in the Mission to life sciences labs in South San Francisco — designers ...

With its low embodied carbon, long lifespan and earthquake- and fire-resistant properties, concrete block is reemerging as a go-to material for building back better and greener. Low embodied ...

Instead of making buildings from new concrete only, this technique could offer a way to recycle old materials while also trapping carbon dioxide in the process. The blocks could theoretically be ...

Concrete blocks are prefabricated materials primarily used for constructing walls. Similar to bricks, these blocks are stacked together and bonded with mortar, typically composed of cement ...

PHNX Materials has devised a way to strip fly ash of sulfur and aluminum, impurities that concrete companies would rather ...

3D printing, regardless of the material being printed ... or other structures that normally would involve the laying of concrete blocks or the creation and filling of concrete forms.

It's a difficult problem to solve, because doing so will require us to find eco-friendly materials that are as strong as concrete and need little maintenance. That's why scientists have been ...

Mallorca by H Arquitectes that mined demolished building materials to produce new concrete blocks. The project employed lime-only construction for upper floors and hybrid approaches for lower ...