Architecture and Construction

Truck-safe bamboo bridge opens in China

In China bamboo is used for furniture, artwork, building scaffolding, panels for concrete casting and now, truck bridges.Yan Xiao, a professor at the…

Vienna University of Technology tests tunnel fire safety

In the last years, the tunnel fires have shown that the tunnel support structure is severely damaged at an extremely high fire impact. “In some tunnels, up to…

New ORNL roof system means savings for homeowners

From an energy efficiency perspective, roof technology has not progressed substantially in hundreds of years, but that is changing with the use of active…

Virtual world used to tackle climate change, establishing wind farms we can no longer see

Currently in the UK around two-thirds of planning applications for wind farms are rejected. Concerns over the impact wind farms will have on local residents…

MIT duo see people-powered "Crowd Farm" Plan would harvest energy of human movement

The so-called “Crowd Farm,” as envisioned by James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk, would turn the mechanical energy of people walking or jumping into a source of…

NJIT professor says certain home shapes and roofs hold up best in hurricane

Civil engineer Rima Taher, PhD, special lecturer in the New Jersey School of Architecture at NJIT, spent two years examining the findings of research centers…

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