Ordinary Portland cement is available worldwide and has become the most widely used material in construction. Engineers have been educated in its use not only for civil engineering but also for building and construction, and guidance for its use is widely available. During the past years, with society’s developing conscience on sustainability, lots of fingers […]
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When designing cities, there is a set of strong values that are frequently and explicitly cited, and whose achievement is clearly dependent to a significant degree on city form, such as: meeting demand for housing and infrastructure, providing space for wanted uses, reducing pollution, exploiting resources or new areas, maintaining property value, improving safety, …
We can all agree that the first step towards a healthy diet is choosing quality ingredients but what about kitchen utensils? Even if you make the effort to buy your groceries in specialized organic shops, you’ll be throwing most of that effort away if you’re cooking in a teflon pan or a casserole that may
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Biohabitability is a discipline that studies, measures and evaluates the environmental factors that impact our health. Biohabitability describes spaces that achieve to be livable from a human biology point of view. Applying biohabitability is all about learning how our organism works and applying it to our indoors to obtain biotic spaces. The technological advances made
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In the age of super-technified materials, digital architecture and industrialized construction, what room is there for craftsmanship in a technological world? The sustainability trend – or should I call it inherent professional responsibility – of the global building stock advocates for buildings that are more connected to their context and that contribute to environmental, social
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You know that phenomenon that causes for a word to lose its meaning after repeating it too many times? Well, lately I’ve had the impression that’s what’s happened with the word sustainability. It seems like every time the word appears on any article or post, it’s referencing something different and that’s how I figured that
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If I asked you to close your eyes and imagine yourself in a relaxing environment, odds are that the environment you just picked incorporates several natural features like the presence of plants, the sea and its gentle breeze, a fireplace with its crackling sound, … You’ve most likely heard before that humans are instinctively drawn
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This house wasn’t name after its shape but after the concept of circular construction. One of the premises for this project was to choose and use all building materials from a circular perspective, making the whole structure an easy-to-dismount material bank. The main character of the construction is a 50cm-thick and 15m tall rammed earth
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The overwhelming development of technology has transformed urbanized spaces into electromagnetic radiation hotspots. Cities have become a minefield of sources: high voltage towers, telephone antennas, WiFi, radio and television waves, … Far from wanting to scare the reader, this article will try to clarify what electromagnetic fields really are and which measures can be taken
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