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Construction

In project architecture and civil engineering, construction is the building or assembly of any infrastructure on a site or sites.

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Emerging Robotics Technology May Lead to Better Buildings in Less Time

Feb. 10, 2021 — Emerging robotics technology may soon help construction companies and contractors create buildings in less time at higher quality and at lower costs. Innovators developed and are testing a novel ...

Toward Sustainable Construction: Preparing Liquefied Stabilized Soil from Construction Sludge

Nov. 1, 2023 — Liquefied stabilized soil (LSS) is made with construction waste and used for filling and backfilling long, confined spaces where traditional compaction is difficult. Using LSS helps speed up ...

Notre-Dame De Paris Cathedral Was Historical First in Using Iron Reinforcements in the 12th Century

Mar. 15, 2023 — The Notre-Dame de Paris is the first known cathedral of Gothic-style architecture to be initially constructed with extensive use of iron to bind stones together. The 2019 fire that significantly ...

Cracking the Concrete Code

Mar. 21, 2023 — New research introduces metamaterial concrete for the development of smart civil infrastructure systems. Researchers present a new concept for lightweight and mechanically-tunable concrete systems ...

Autonomous Excavator Constructs a 6-Meter-High Dry-Stone Wall

Nov. 22, 2023 — Researchers taught an autonomous excavator to construct dry stone walls itself using boulders weighing several tons and demolition ...

Recycled Concrete and CO2 from the Air Are Made Into a New Building Material

Oct. 7, 2021 — A new kind of concrete could reduce emissions from the construction industry. Calcium carbonate concrete is made from waste concrete and carbon dioxide from the air or industrial exhaust gases. It ...

Building Bricks from Waste Materials

Aug. 1, 2022 — Firing bricks and making mortar and cement is very costly, but organic chemists are working on more sustainable alternatives -- focusing on building materials made from waste products. In another ...

Sustainable Concrete Cuts Emissions and Uses Waste for Better Buildings

Oct. 7, 2022 — An international research group is building a case for more sustainable concrete by replacing synthetic reinforcement materials with natural fibers and materials from difference waste streams. The ...

Timber or Steel? Study Helps Builders Reduce Carbon Footprint of Truss Structures

Nov. 29, 2021 — A new analysis could help architects and builders reduce the carbon footprint of truss structures, the crisscrossing struts that bolster bridges, towers, and ...

Biomimetic Dual-Color Domes Programmable for Encryption

Sep. 15, 2022 — A group of researchers has made a key breakthrough in fabricating dual-color domes. They have proposed an innovative strategy to self-assemble different nanostructures in a one-pot method using one ...

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Printed Robots With Bones, Ligaments, and Tendons

Nov. 15, 2023 — For the first time, researchers have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons made of different polymers using a new laser scanning technique. The new technology makes it possible to 3D print special plastics with ...

'Cooling Glass' Blasts Building Heat Into Space

Nov. 13, 2023 — Researchers aiming to combat rising global temperatures have developed a new 'cooling glass' that can turn down the heat indoors without electricity by drawing on the cold depths of space. The new technology, a microporous glass coating, can lower ...

Photonics Team Develops High-Performance Ultrafast Lasers That Fit on a Fingertip

Nov. 9, 2023 — Scientists demonstrate a novel approach for creating high-performance ultrafast lasers on nanophotonic chips. The new advance will enable pocket-sized devices that can perform detailed GPS-free ...

450-Million-Year-Old Organism Finds New Life in Softbotics

Nov. 6, 2023 — Researchers have used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed nearly 450 million years ago and is believed to be one of the first echinoderms capable of movement using a muscular ...

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Researchers Have Taught an Algorithm to 'Taste'

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To Help Autonomous Vehicles Make Moral Decisions, Researchers Ditch the 'Trolley Problem'

Dec. 1, 2023 — Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with ...

Scientists Use A.I.-Generated Images to Map Visual Functions in the Brain

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Smart Microgrids Can Restore Power More Efficiently and Reliably in an Outage

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Researchers Develop Novel Deep Learning-Based Detection System for Autonomous Vehicles

Nov. 30, 2023 — Autonomous vehicles require object detection systems to navigate traffic and avoid obstacles on the road. However, current detection methods often ...

Progress Toward Improved Vaccines

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Scientists Build Tiny Biological Robots from Human Cells

Nov. 30, 2023 — Scientists have created tiny moving biological robots from human tracheal cells that can encourage the growth of neurons across artificial 'wounds' in the lab. Using patients' own cells could permit ...

Unsafe Lead Levels in School Drinking Water: New Study IDs Building Risk Factors

Nov. 30, 2023 — Civil and environmental engineers have determined the factors that may help identify the schools and daycare centers at greatest risk for elevated ...

Phasing out Fossil Fuels Could Save Millions of Lives

Nov. 30, 2023 — Scientists provide new evidence to motivate rapid fossil fuel phaseout. The science team determined exposure to ambient air pollution and its health impacts using an updated atmospheric composition ...

Researchers Show an Old Law Still Holds for Quirky Quantum Materials

Nov. 30, 2023 — Long before researchers discovered the electron and its role in generating electrical current, they knew about electricity and were exploring its potential. One thing they learned early on was that ...