For good reasons, sustainability is becoming more important and prevalent in the building ... material is still being determined. Many sustainable products are still cost-prohibitive for large ...

Dorfman, Tan, and fellow SpaceX engineer Nathan Silvernail cofounded Plantd, a North Carolina-based building materials startup ... U.S. for the crop to easily scale up, says Tan.

That means pellets of PCMs need to be embedded into a building material, but fewer of them can fit in that form, and it can be difficult to scale that production. For the new study, the Texas A&M ...

A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the ... but we need to create something that can scale.” With a grant from the National Science Foundation, Miller and Moran and ...

As such, finding more sustainable building materials is vital to lessening our ... including in field-scale commercial applications. N. crassa is a model organism in fungal research.” ...

Engineers have developed a building ... optimize the materials by coaxing the cells to live even longer and figuring out how to manufacture them efficiently on a larger scale.

“We take leftover construction waste, leftover fiber waste, leftover plastic or packaging waste, and turn that into a building material you ... a number of large-scale structures including ...