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Attached to rebar or formwork and buried under the pour, the sensors send data about the concrete’s condition directly to engineers’ phones (Photograph by Prof Luna Lu)

US states line up to see how ‘talking concrete’ can cut repairs

Nine US states with concrete interstate highways will test sensors developed by Purdue University that tell engineers when a section of road is ready for heavy traffic. Attached to rebar…

Rebar robots team up to cut installation time in half

French firm pilots scheme to rebuild Ukraine with rubble of bombed buildings

In a claimed world-first, the technology lets designers model sound experiences virtually (Courtesy of Treble Technologies)

Tech adds sound as design parameter to 3D modelling

From left, Purdue researchers Yifu Wu, Jiansong Zhang, Jin Wei-Kocsis, Byung-Cheol Min, and Dongming Gan (Courtesy of Purdue University)

Grant funds study into human-robot collaboration in construction

A 3D-printed steel sample undergoing a tensile test to measure its mechanical properties (Photographs courtesy of ConstructAdd)

What next, printed steel? Well, yes …

Researchers say it shows that digital twins can be be used to test designs of social and healthcare facilities to make them more conducive to people’s health and wellbeing (Image courtesy of Spinview)

Care home digital twin sparks same physiological reactions as real thing, study shows

JCB chairman Lord Bamford shows off the engine, developed by some 100 engineers working for more than a year (Courtesy of JCB)

JCB unveils first hydrogen engine

Rome’s Pantheon was built in AD 128 and is still in use today (Andreadonetti/Dreamstime)

Harvard and MIT rediscover secret of ‘self-healing’ Roman concrete

Co-founders Jani-Mikael Kuusisto, left, and Jarno Vehmas show their 0.3mm-thick printed film with tiny heaters, which they say can be integrated into a building’s interior surfaces (Courtesy of The Warming Surfaces Company)

Save money by heating a room’s surfaces, not its air, tech firm says

Berge Olympus’ four sails would cut its emissions by 19 tonnes of CO2 a day, companies said (Images courtesy of Bar Technologies and Yara Marine Technologies)

Cargo ships to get steel sails to cut fuel and emissions

The agency believes space solar power could provide baseload power to European grids the way nuclear, hydro, and coal plants do now. Pictured is a solar power satellite concept developed by Nasa in 2011 (Nasa/Public domain)

European Space Agency to probe solar power from space

Stora Enso says its wooden blades will be relatively easy to transport (Paul Anderson/ CC BY-SA 2.0)

Up next in the wind revolution: Wooden turbine blades

The combination of LiDAR, radar, cameras and GNSS lets it capture a structure’s features and dimensions quickly, company says

Super-duper flying laser scanner makes Time’s best invention list

Purdue researchers test a cure-in-place pipe intervention (Courtesy of Purdue University)

The clever way we fix sewer pipes fills the air with nanoplastics, research finds

Damage caused by Hurricane Ian in Delray Beach, Florida, September 2022 (David Dellinger/National Weather Service of Miami/Public domain)

University unveils machine for hurricane-testing roof systems

Carbonaide paving blocks have already been used at one of Skanska’s construction projects this autumn (Courtesy of VTT)

Finnish researchers win award for carbon-negative precast concrete

Swarms of drones could be on a future Mars mission. (Image: Yusuf Furkan KAYA, Aerial Robotics Laboratory, Imperial College London/Empa)

Scientists can now build structures with swarms of flying drones

The electrolyser at HydrogenPro’s base (HydrogenPro)

World’s largest hydrogen electrolyser arrives in Norway

Three scientists behind NTU Singapore’s fireproof coating

Singapore researchers say their invisible stain fireproofs wood

Australian chemists make self-glueing bricks from cooking oil

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