Bamboo Transcends the Tropics for Carbon-Negative Construction by Zach Mortice Bamboo is fast-growing, sustainable, and stronger than steel—so why isn’t it used more for standard construction? New techniques promise to liberate the material from tropical tropes.
Architecture New Composite Building Materials Are Redefining Modernism at Exhibit Columbus by Zach Mortice
Infrastructure 3 Ways Heroic Civil Engineers Can Save the World Through Resilience Planning by Jeff Link
Manufacturing How Engineering Art and Creativity Can Light Up New Business by Redshift Video LERA+ helps artists combine engineering and art to bring their visions to life. Watch artist James Clar and the LERA+ team discuss software they created for his unique light-based sculpture.
Architecture From Fancy to Futuristic, 7 Ways Underwater Architecture Is Reaching New Depths by Rosa Trieu Will humans ever live under the sea? These seven examples of underwater structures—from hotels you can book today to cities in which you might reside in the future—inch toward that reality.
Architecture 5 Ways Innovative Engineering Shaped Russia’s Supertall Lakhta Center Tower by Cathy Chatfield-Taylor Supertall buildings can be tall orders to design. But building Russia’s Lakhta Center, Europe’s tallest skyscraper tower, meant innovating at a new level to overcome challenges of magnitude.
Architecture US Olympic Museum Relies on Laser Scanning to Bring an Ambitious Design to Life by Redshift Video The design of the US Olympic Museum in Colorado is ambitious, graceful, and iconic. Watch the video to see how laser scanning is helping to bring this complex building to life.
Construction Do Legacy Construction Companies Have the Inside Track on Modular Building? by Zach Mortice Though many startups are playing the “modular-construction” game, what about legacy companies with the experience and scale to do it right? With iterative design, modular is about to go big.
