Textiles are a given in civil engineering: they stabilize water protection dams, facilitate the revegetation of slopes at risk of erosion, and even make asphalt layers of roads thinner. Until…
Components released from facade materials… The plaster and mortar used in facades often contain heavy metals and biocides that leach out and infiltrate into the soil when it rains. The…
PALM-4U: urban planning for climate change. As climate change progresses, extreme weather events such as prolonged hot spells, storms and heavy rain are occurring ever more frequently, and cities are…
Porous media such as concrete represent a spherical packing of different components. The mechanical properties of such mixtures are difficult to calculate due to their discretized nature. A team led…
Researchers of Kiel University model future urban development on European coasts. Europe’s coasts are densely populated and already affected by the impacts of sea level rise. In addition to traditional,…
This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale sees itself as a “Laboratory of the Future”. Bio-composites are not just dreams of the future in architecture. The German Institutes of Textile and Fiber…