Smart textiles for buildings represent a bold leap forward in construction materials—where fiber technology meets structural engineering to create lightweight, high-performance fabric systems that ...

Tensile architecture is all about structural efficiency. The use of modelling and analysis helps us to understand the loads apparent in structures of interesting, dramatic, and complex forms that ...

Researchers have used a fungus and bacteria to create rigid, living structures similar to bone and coral, which could one day ...

Both fungal and bacterial methods worked. In fact, the bacterially mineralized scaffolds reached full mineralization in just ...

Construction Administration Associate Director Evangelia Ieronymaki’s research advances a structural model that may improve ...

Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results, publishing April 16 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science ...

For centuries, innovations in structural materials have prioritized strength and durability—often at a steep environmental price. Today, the construction industry accounts for approximately 10% of ...

The City of Tshwane wants to use the Expropriation Act to address and repurpose derelict, hijacked, and abandoned buildings in the capital, with 32 sites already identified as needing urgent ...

Researchers developed a cement-hydrogel composite that can generate and store power, paving the way for self-powered smart ...

A new Fungus and bacteria-based building material demonstrates a healing ability that could lead to self-repairing structures ...