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World's highest wooden building is taller than even designed
The construction that is now considered the world's tallest timber building turned out to be 4m. higher than it was designed. The building is located in Brumunddal, 10 km north of Oslo in Norway. I...
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Can wood compete with steel and concrete as a building material?
Wood presents a lot of benefits as a building material because it is strong, lightweight and environmental friendly. However, only changes in building codes will make wood competitive with steel and c...
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How did the tower of Pisa remain unharmed from earthquakes throughout the years?
A team of engineers just unveiled the mystery The Tower of Pisa, a 58 meter-tall campanile situated behind the Cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa, is known worldwide for its tilting. In fact, pr...
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Two Scottish and a Colombian Universities use WhatsApp to predict landslides in Latin America
The researchers have been training a local community living in an area at high risk of landslides to monitor how their main hillside is shifting over time, by sending photos back to them via WhatsApp...
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The NHERI Science Plan: A Resource for Natural Hazards Engineering Researchers
With NHERI's five-year Science Plan, natural hazard engineers now have a roadmap for research When developing proposals to NSF, researchers are strongly encouraged to consider tenets of the Sci...
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Discarded plastic bottles could be used to make stronger concrete
MIT students have found a way to produce plastic-reinforced concrete that is up to 15% stronger than conventional concrete, by adding irradiated bits of plastic water bottles MIT students have...
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Researchers are close to accurately simulating the ground motions of earthquakes to predict how these could impact infrastructure
A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley (Berkeley Lab) and Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) national laboratories, as well as from the University of California a...
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Scientists discovered the reason that allows Roman concrete structures to still stand strong
There are Roman concrete breakwaters built more than 1,500 years ago that still stand strong, maybe even stronger now than they were back then. A team of scientists from USA, China and Italy have disc...
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Researchers study the necessary road infrastructure preparation before the circulation of automated vehicles
It should be able to support the transition period and become the basis for the future, fully automated, transport systems A new research project that will prepare the road infrastructure to su...
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German researchers have developed concrete that functions as a photovoltaic cell
They used the principle of plant photosynthesis to create energy
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