Category: Construction, Building and Insulation
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Praj Technologies Bio Bitumen Breakthrough
Praj’s technology breakthrough for producing “Bio-bitumen”. Eco-friendly renewable material for road construction
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Stora Enso Biobased Binder
Stora Enso launches bio-based binder for safe and healthy everyday living
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Michael Keaton and Nexii Partner on Green Building Solutions (FREE)
Michael Keaton Partners with Nexii Building Solutions to Bring New Plant, Hundreds of Green Jobs to Pittsburgh.
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New French Flax Shives Biocomposite
LA Linière has developed an innovative eco-material based on flax shives
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Dow Builds Milk Bottle Road in China
Dow and Shiny Meadow give hard-to-recycle plastic a second life with “Milk Bottle Road”
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Origin Materials and AECI Much Asphalt Partner on Low Carbon Asphalt
Origin Materials and AECI Much Asphalt to Develop Low-Carbon Asphalt
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Recycling Old Tires To Strengthen Concrete
Most conventional production processes for graphene are time-consuming, solvent-intensive, and energetically demanding
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CO2 Concrete Rebrands as CarbonBuilt
CO₂Concrete today announced it has changed its name to CarbonBuilt to better align with its mission to store significant amounts of carbon dioxide in concrete used for the built environment
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Plastic Waste Roads Overview by Yale University
A growing number of studies say that roads containing waste plastic have the potential to perform as well or better than traditional roads
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Plastic Waste Roads vs Bitumen Roads
Performance comparison of waste plastic modified versus conventional bituminous roads
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Building Houses with Recycled Plastic
Using one of the world’s problems to solve another is the philosophy behind a Norwegian start-up’s mission to develop affordable housing from 100% recycled plastic.
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Wood Plastic Composite as Alternative to Wood
WPC as an alternative material to wood in the construction and automotive sector
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Sweden Tests Lignin Asphalt
The project uses lignin extracted from black liquor, a residual product from the pulp industry.
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Can Wood Make EU Buildings More Sustainable?
Building European cities with wood would sequester and store half of cement industry’s current carbon emissions
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Stora Enso Goes Bio Asphalt
Swedish road and infrastructure operator Svevia has decided to collaborate with Stora Enso in testing lignin in asphalt.
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Wood Based PVC Pipes in Sweden
INOVYN supplies its next generation of sustainable PVC to ‘The Hope Project’
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Stora Enso Call for Food Packaging and Construction Solutions
Today is the first time we are launching a third, end-of-year Venture Client cycle with entirely new business opportunities in material innovation and construction data. Read more below about our opportunities with Stora Enso and KEKO.
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American Revolutionise Road Building
There’s a battle between EU and US to develop sustainable road materials. I think the Americans won this one. The Americans are just more practical than the Europeans.
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Can We Use Plastic Waste as Building Material?
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Off Grid Buildings with Hemp and Solar
A team of organizations has completed construction of a ground-breaking eco-building in Morocco that combines hemp construction with a high-tech solar energy system for total independence from the electrical grid.
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Bio-Cement Solves Two Problems
Researchers have come up with a neat solution to the problem of producing some forms of biofuel waste – add it to cement, and make concrete nearly a third stronger than other versions.
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Consortium on Biobased Asphalt
On Wednesday 4 March, representatives from 22 organizations met at the Tech Park in Delft for the official start of the biobased asphalt cooperation program.
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Bio-based Material To Replace PS Insulation
During a two-year project, Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF have developed a novel, bio-based facade insulating material for PS boards.
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Orange Peel and Mushrooms as Building Materials
A biotech startup is researching building materials that could revolutionise construction. Not only are they biodegradable – some also absorb toxins.
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Biodegradable Bridges
Researchers are looking into new materials to lay the foundations for living structures that respond to their environment.
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Biodegradable Construction Materials for Farmhouses
People look for new ways to go green every day. They embrace things like solar energy panels that have become more affordable over the years and cars that operate on alternative fuels.
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Funding Round for Biocement
bioMASON, the Triangle startup seeking to remake the cement and other construction materials industry, is looking to build a bigger future with a fundraising round aimed at securing $18 million.
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Stora Enso To Build Wooden Building For Head Office
Stora Enso is partnering with the Finnish pension insurance company Varma in the construction of a new head office in the centre of Helsinki. Stora Enso will lease part of the building, which will showcase world-class modern wooden architecture.
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Increased Use of Biobased Materials in Construction in 2020
Bamboo, straw bales and timbercrete are among the ‘eco-friendly’ building materials that will increasingly be used in construction projects next year, according to a recent survey.
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Sun Valley Man Builds Homes with Hemp
“I was really fascinated with ways that we could build more sustainable, more naturally, use products that are from the earth, and carbon dioxide capturing,” said Matthew Mead. “Most of our products offset carbon dioxide, and some of them are even carbon absorbing.”
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Los Angeles Is Looking Into Paving Its Roads with Recycled Plastic
In a few years, Angelenos could find themselves driving down streets made of their own recycled plastic bags and bottles. Working with a company called TechniSoil, the City of Los Angeles has been testing out a new method for paving roads using repurposed plastic as a binder. The first pilot site of the project, which…
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What is Hempcrete?
One may be inclined to believe that there is a limit to how useful a plant can be. After all, it’s just a plant, right? Well, the humble hemp would surprise anyone who thinks along those lines, and pleasantly so.
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French Town Invent New Business Model for Bioplastics Thanks to the Walloon Region
It doesn’t happen very often that France disrupts the bioplastics industry but it looks as if they got it right this time. And believe it or not, with the help of the Belgian Walloon region.
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Americans Develop Biodegradable Insulation
In a University of Alaska Anchorage laboratory, researchers have been growing lightweight and fuzzy panels from mushroom tissue that they say could be used as insulation for shipping frozen fish.
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Could The Roads of the Future be Bio-based?
Bitumen is a by-product of oil production and is used to bind the surfaces of paved roads. Some researchers, concerned about its environmental impacts and future supply if petroleum refining slows down, have started to develop bio-based alternatives.
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Biodegradable Construction Bricks Made Of Charcoal And Loofah
concrete manufacturing, one of the most common construction methods, produces about 15% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, making the building industry a large threat for the environment. the green charcoal’s biodegradable bricks and innovative construction materials aims to change that.
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The Gaia House is a 3D-Printed Prototype Made of Biodegradable Materials
WASP, a 3D printing studio based out of Italy, recently produced a full-scale residential prototype out of soil, rice products, and hydraulic lime. Measuring approximately 320-square-feet in plan, the project was completed in 10 days and was built in the town of Massa Lombarda in the region of Emilia-Romagna.
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Two Companies Develop Bioplastics Mats
Two companies develop a bioplastic clean room mat.
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Amsterdam is Building 3D Printed House from Bioplastics
Dutch company DUS Architecture is building a full-sized 3D printed 700m2 canal house from bioplastics. The plastic is more than 50% bio-based and comes from linseed oil.
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First House on Mars will be Made from Bioplastics
NASA approves plans from US Research studio to build a 3D printed house made from bioplastics for planet Mars.
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Reverdia’s bio-succinic acid finds application in paints
During the 2016 BIO World Congress in San Diego, Reverdia (Italy), the dedicated JV belonging to Roquette France and Royal DSM (The Netherlands) announced that its BIOSUCCINIUM® succinic acid, in combination with Roquette’s POLYSORB® isosorbide, is being used in paints and coatings by the well-known European producer Mader.
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