Posts Tagged: Concrete Design

MIT Designers Create Huge Concrete Blocks That Can Be Assembled by Hand

Visit just about any construction site today and you’ll see cranes hoisting large slabs of concrete into place. However, cranes haven’t always been around, and for thousands of years human beings moved large stones by hand. Matter Design, a Boston-based company directed by MIT professor Brandon Clifford, recently collaborated with the multinational building materials company… Read more »

Swiss Researchers Develop Ultra-Thin Concrete Roof Design

Concrete is one of the oldest building materials in the world, and yet engineers are still finding creative new ways to incorporate concrete into their industrial designs. At ETH Zurich in Switzerland, for example, one group of researchers recently built a prototype roof design using a curved concrete that’s just 5 cm thick on average…. Read more »