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Tag: building materials
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Coconut and lemon composite to heat and cool homes
Researchers in Stockholm, Sweden have developed an eco-friendly material that they say can be used to cool and even heat homes. The team of researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology – Sweden’s largest technical university – used coconuts, lemons, and modified wood, to create a “wood composite thermal battery.” According to the research […]
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Spotlight on future of building materials
The Materials and Embodied Carbon Leaders Alliance (MECLA) is hosting an online Spotlight event about regenerative materials, and the future of building materials. Featuring speakers from government and industry, the event will explore how different existing materials can adapt, which emerging biophilic and regenerative materials are entering the market, and the role government can play […]
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Saint-Gobain announces ‘multi comfort’ winners
International producer of building materials Saint-Gobain has chosen the winners of its 15th Multi Comfort Students Contest. More than 2,200 students from 199 universities entered the contest, mainly from the fields of architecture and engineering. The final, held in Milan, saw 60 competing teams from 34 countries present their projects to an international panel of […]