What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled ...
Sometimes the best innovations look backward before they move forward. That’s exactly what’s happening with TreeSoil, a project that takes ancient farming wisdom and reimagines it with robots, 3D ...
See how a 3D printed brick compares with a traditional brick in design and construction. This experiment explores the possibilities and limitations of custom 3D printed creations. #3DPrinting ...
Interlocking glass bricks show structural strength on par with concrete equivalents. MIT engineers are developing a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed, recycled glass. Using a ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The U.S. Army has developed "Lego-like" concrete bricks in order to ...
As a child playing with LEGO, many of us let our imaginations run wild. With licenses for characters and objects from major franchises, or just cool brick-building sets that LEGO itself designed, a ...
It is a fact of life that 3D printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers join. Some of this is due to voids and imperfect layer bonding, but you can ...
Mexican multidisciplinary design studio MANUFACTURA devised a new way to create building materials from discarded eggshells. The team used locally-sourced food waste (collected from donations and ...
Whether it’s about saving money amidst rising energy prices, or reducing your own carbon footprint, residential solar has come a long way. But federal shifts in support have created a ticking clock ...