Cheaper buildings, courtesy of mud
Peter Dizikes
created: April 22, 2025, 9 p.m. | updated: April 23, 2025, 9:22 a.m.
One costly and time-consuming step in constructing a concrete building is creating the “formwork,” the wooden mold into which the concrete is poured. Now MIT researchers have developed a way to replace the wood with lightly treated mud. “What we’ve demonstrated is that we can essentially take the ground we’re standing on, or waste soil…
2 months ago: MIT Technology Review