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Israeli company, AGOR Engineering Enterprises Ltd. has invented a moveable floor system for swimming pools. This takes the word ‘pool deck’ to a new level.

The moveable floors uses a water-based hydraulic […]

Concrete Canvas is a flexible concrete impregnated fabric that hardens on hydration to form a thin, durable water proof and fire-resistant concrete layer.  The makers describe them as “concrete on a r […]

An Italian company CoeLux has produced a light fixture that mimics sunlight using LED and nanotechnology.

CoeLux is founded by Italian Professor Paolo Di Trapani. The LED used is calibrated to the same w […]

Touted as a brick system that can bring speed, lower cost, better aesthetics, is Inter-Locking bricks the way forward?

The concept of interlocking bricks is based on following principles:

Each brick is […]

Glued Laminated Timber (Glulam) and Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) are engineered wood solutions. They are structural timber products which can be used d as vertical columns or horizontal beams, as well as cu […]

GFRC is made by combining a mixture of fine sand, cement, polymer, water, other admixtures and alkali-resistant (AR) glass fibers.

GFRC has been used to produce products including thin architectural cladding […]

Are they referring to the same thing?

Heat-treating glass is a way to create glass with better durability and/or safety. The type of processing used depends on the intended application of the glass

There […]

ETH is leading in the research of using drones in construction. It has started a research since 2012 to investigate and develop methods and techniques for robotic aerial construction.

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Flexbrick is a breath of fresh air in the realm of traditional building materials application.

Doctor Architect Vicente Sarrablo, Director of the School of Architecture of the International University of […]

BubbleDeck System is a revolutionary construction method by eliminating concrete from the neutral axis of a floor slab that is structurally not performing, as a result dramatically reducing in Dead Weight. The […]

GRIDFLEX is used for constructing residential and multi-storey buildings. The standard element weighs only 20 kg, and is pushed upwards into position by means of the Shuttering Aid GF with site personnel safely […]

BLAINE BROWNELL, AIA predicts his list of 5 building materials to watch in 2016.

The following materials technologies, I expect, will make significant headway this year. None is yet commercially available, […]

In a world of economic scarcity, public housing has become essential for sheltering our species’ most vulnerable populations. Interestingly, the island city-state of Sinagpore having a unique approach to public h […]

The new Learning Hub at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore looks nothing like a typical campus building. School administrators conceived of the facility as the embodiment of a pedagogical sea […]

“Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC)” means a construction method whereby free-standing volumetric modules (complete with finishes for walls, floors and ceilings) are —.

constructed and a […]

While many employees head straight out the door at the end of the day, staff at Airbnb, Twitter and Facebook here may find it harder to leave their offices.

That is because their workplaces are creative […]

A total of 6 Design Awards and 8 Honourable Mentions are awarded in 4 categories. Of the 14 Award Winners, one project is the “Best Project Construction under $2 Million”and one other project as the “Building of […]

EQUITONE  is a through-coloured facade material designed by and for architects. Our company has produced these façade panels since the 1950´s under the name ¨ETERNIT¨. Every EQUITONE panel is unique, showing the […]

On 15 April 2016, URA annouced changes with respect to the conversion of surplus parking in commercial buildings. Surplus car parking spaces1 can now be permanently converted to other uses in commercial, mixed use […]