Ukraine, a Top-Secret Reconstruction
The pot is large. In fact, huge: 524 billion dollars. Roughly equivalent to the GDP of the United Arab Emirates. According to the World Bank, this is the cost of rebuilding Ukraine over the next dec...
Building a Net-Zero Nation: A Look at the Current State of Malaysia's Greenest Structures
As Malaysia charts its course towards an ambitious net-zero emissions target by 2050, the nation's buildings have been thrust into the spotlight. Accounting for over half of the country's electricit...
Startup Elementerre: the future of construction with rammed earth and bulrush
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Elementerre is a Senegalese company founded with the mission of revolutionising the construction s...
Startup, Front: Construction Materials from Demolition, Corn, and Cardboard Waste
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The first of these to be put on the market was WasteBasedBricks, created starting from a grinding ...
Decarbonising Cement Thanks to Carbon Capture: interview with Sergio Tortelli
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano According to the International Energy Agency, the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions in cement ...
Startup, Urban Machine: robotics and AI for recovering waste wood
Urban Machine is a start-up leading the way in sustainable wood recovery. The US-based company uses artificial intelligence and robotics to remove metal fasteners from waste wood generated by constr...
Startup, Mykor: building insulation from mushrooms
Mykor uses biotechnology to produce insulation from industrial residues and mycelium, aiming to decarbonise the construction industry. The startup's first product, MykoFoam, is an acoustic and therm...
Startup, Zupply: automation platform for circular building projects
Zupply is a Danish startup that supports companies in the construction industry in transitioning to circular economy models. They do so by using data and automation to initiate workflows to efficien...
Startup: RECO2, sustainable cobblestones out of industrial waste
Metallurgic, mining and glass scraps are transformed by a patented production process into Vytreum, a material used for outdoor flooring with characteristics comparable to current ceramic and c...
Cement from chemical recycling of inert granulate, Nextchem-Colacem agreement
In a bid to tackle the environmental impact of cement production and bolster circularity within the construction sector, Nextchem and Colacem have sealed a groundbreaking agreement. The collaboratio...
Circular economy, rethinking the built environment in the digital age
The list of digital innovations that can be applied to the construction sector, one of the most impactful on the environment, is long and varied. Digital twins, artificial intelligence, materials pa...
Startup, Ecococon: Straw and Wood Panels from Slovakia
“We are revolutionising the construction sector by providing a building system that is climate neutral, healthy, effective and designed to be safely returned to nature after use,” says E...
Building a Wood Construction Culture in Italy with ARCA
Health, energy efficiency, sustainability, beauty. The advantages of wood construction are well known, and, with the development of new building technologies and constant materials research, they ar...
Startup, Kubik: plastic recycling for low-cost and low-carbon construction
Kenyan startup Kubik transforms difficult-to-recycle plastic waste into low-cost and low-carbon-emission construction materials for building long-lasting and less polluting structures. From sch...