Here comes a new material: the transparent wood
In construction industry, the materials are a continuously evolving branch: to meet modern men's need renovating ancient finds and inventing...
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The light emitting cement
Can we imagine the future of our infrastructures without public lighting, because the road itself will generate sufficient light for...
The walls of the future could produce energy thanks to graphene
Graphene is an allotrope of carbon in the form of a two-dimensional, atomic-scale, honey-comb lattice in which one atom forms...
The de-icing asphalt
In those countries that are subject to heavy snowfalls in winter, getting around becomes a problem due to the snow-clad...
The concrete that regenerates itself from bacteria
Concrete is one of the most used materials to fabricate buildings thanks to its good qualities such as the compression...
TopMix: super-draining asphalt
In this era of important innovations and discoveries, from Britain comes TopMix (the company that produces it is Lafarge Tarmac...
Energetic cost of building materials
Davide Benucci, graduated in Civil and Environmental Engineering. “Life-Cycle Cost Analysis” is a method of calculating the total cost of...
Wooden beam reinforced, now you can!
The advent of glulam has, no doubt, solved some deficiencies typical of solid wood (limitation of size and shape, mechanical...
In Brindisi, the two largest domes in Europe
"The two domes" are a "high engineering " work, as defined by Enel, which will resolve an issue much debated...