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 ...

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Pigeon droppings are bad for your lungs; they are acidic, so bad for buildings ... reduction of the tensile strength of the lungs. Lungs become rigid, and a thickened membrane prevents oxygen ...

Called “tensile membrane structures” or “Sprung ... convent at 1754 St. Joseph Blvd. for use as transitional housing. A downtown office building at 230 Queen St. is also being converted ...

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 ...

Also, more trees means less nesting on buildings ... of the lungs and reduction of the tensile strength of the lungs. Lungs become rigid, and a thickened membrane prevents oxygen from getting ...

structures of the synthetic mevalonate operon (sevenfold). These improvements have brought the cost of artemisinin production to a sufficient level to broaden its use in the developing world.

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

Building costs are comparable to more traditional structures, but developers say building with wood has advantages over steel ...

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