We’re moving one brick at a time towards a more earth friendly building future, and researchers in Europe have just thrown their latest invention into the equation.
Teams working together at the Schools of Architecture at the University of Seville in Spain and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK have created a new environmentally-friendly building material that is stronger and uses less energy to make than its conventional counterpart
The new blocks, which are reinforced by wool and seaweed, were developed during a push by the two universities to create more environmentally-kind building materials that would also mechanically improve upon more traditional ones.
"The objective was to produce bricks reinforced with wool and to obtain a composite that was more sustainable, non-toxic, using abundant local materials, and that would mechanically improve the bricks’ strength," Carmen Galán and Carlos Rivera, authors of the study and researchers at the universities said about their invention.
Source: Inhabitat
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The new blocks, which are reinforced by wool and seaweed, were developed during a push by the two universities to create more environmentally-kind building materials that would also mechanically improve upon more traditional ones.
"The objective was to produce bricks reinforced with wool and to obtain a composite that was more sustainable, non-toxic, using abundant local materials, and that would mechanically improve the bricks’ strength," Carmen Galán and Carlos Rivera, authors of the study and researchers at the universities said about their invention.
Source: Inhabitat
Read Science Daily© article
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