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Moulding the Future: Buildings Made from Mushrooms

A new technology that transforms fungus into an organic building material has been developed by researchers. The mould-breaking eco-material has already been used to construct a structurally sound 40-foot tower, made entirely of mushroom matter.

  • Smart Concrete Monitoring System Set To Save CCL Customers Time And Money

    As part of our commitment to help clients and partners emerge from the global pandemic stronger and smarter, CCL is proud to announce a distribution agreement for Maturix: an innovative smart concrete monitoring system that brings tangible cost, time and build quality benefits.
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  • Five Buildings to Look Forward to This Year

    As engineers and architects continue to break convention with evermore radical designs that push boundaries in terms of aesthetics, materials and sustainability, there are a number of groundbreaking structures due for completion this year. From an underground art museum to a spacecraft-like structure in the desert, CCL takes a look at the five projects we’re most looking forward to seeing in 2020…

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  • The Living Concrete that Can Grow Itself

    Scientists have developed a new ‘living-concrete’ that regenerates and can even reproduce on demand. The new material holds great potential for the construction industry with its high-fracture toughness and biological capabilities, meaning new bricks can be ‘grown’ on site. With concrete being the second most used substance on the planet after water, could this new material revolutionise construction as we know it?
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  • The Robots That Could Save Construction Companies a Fortune

    Some industry reports suggest that up to 20% of the costs on construction projects are down to reworking mistakes. With margins on some building projects as low as 1% or 2%, it’s more important than ever to get things right the first time. Now a Barcelona-based tech company has developed a “Wall-E” lookalike robot that constantly monitors progress on site, with a mission to prevent needless mistakes and the associated costs.
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  • The World’s First 3D-Printed Community

    Around the world, millions of people in developing countries are living in poverty. Properties are often no more than makeshift shelters, with poor hygiene, no access to clean water and vulnerable to extreme weather conditions. Now a collaboration between forward-thinking companies is trying to change all that with houses that can be constructed in just 24 hours, with almost zero waste.
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  • THE FIRE-RESISTANT CONCRETE MADE FROM OLD TYRES

    A research team at the University of Sheffield has discovered that fibres extracted from old tyres can be used effectively to reinforce concrete, making it more durable in the event of a fire. The discovery could not only make structures much safer, but also help solve a global environmental issue that has gone unresolved for decades.
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  • THE KEY TO STRONGER CONCRETE: CARROTS

    Researchers at England’s Lancaster University have discovered a simple, cost-effective way to make concrete much stronger: carrots. The discovery that adding nanoparticles from root vegetables to a traditional concrete mix ‘significantly improves’ its strength could result in significant savings, reduced carbon emissions and lower energy consumption for construction projects across the world.
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  • Bomb-Resistant Concrete Walls That Could Save Lives

    Bomb blasts cause untold levels of damage, injury and death every year globally. And although there are limitations to what can be done to stop the full force of a bomb blast, a recent discovery made at Northumbria University has the potential to save the lives of civilians and the armed forces all around the world – and it all comes down to the shape of the fibres used in fibre-reinforced concrete.
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  • Concrete That Generates Its Own Solar Power

    A team of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have developed an ultra-thin concrete roof that can generate its own solar power. It is thought that this unique design could help residential buildings produce more energy than they consume, which could have huge implications for the homes of the future.
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  • Moulding the Future: Buildings Made from Mushrooms

    A new technology that transforms fungus into an organic building material has been developed by researchers. The mould-breaking eco-material has already been used to construct a structurally sound 40-foot tower, made entirely of mushroom matter.

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  • Robot-Fabricated Building Material Is 100 Times Lighter Than Brick

    A new building material, woven by robots, has been used to construct a ground-breaking structure that is on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The Elytra Filament Pavilion is fabricated from strands of glass and carbon fibre, resulting in a durable structure that weighs 100 times less than brick.

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  • The new building material made with gas captured from power plants

    Could houses soon be built using carbon dioxide? In a bold step forward for sustainable construction, UCLA researchers believe that CO2 emissions from power plants can be harnessed and used to create a new, sustainable kind of concrete. Their pioneering process takes lime and combines it with carbon dioxide to make an eco-friendly construction material. Dubbed CO2NCRETE, the material has only been produced in a lab using 3D printers so far, with the next step to scale it up and put it to the test.
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  • Green Innovation: Living Walls and Roofs

    Our understanding of climate change is deepening by the day and as a result, architects and structural engineers are now routinely incorporating living, organic walls and roofs into their building designs. This positive trend of using of ‘horti-construction’ techniques that combine traditional building methods with the innovative use of vegetation looks set to grow.
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  • The 3D-Printed Bricks With Inbuilt Air Conditioning

    A 3D-printed ‘Cool Brick’ which keeps buildings cool by using a natural process of evaporation has been invented. The innovation could signal the start of a trend of ‘breathable’ construction materials that can regulate a building’s temperature without the need for air conditioning or climate control.
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  • The Concrete Fabric Designed to Save Lives

    A concrete material that hardens when sprayed with water to create robust temporary shelters could save lives in natural disaster areas and war zones all over the world. The revolutionary fabric called ‘Concrete Canvas’ creates fireproof and waterproof structures in just 24 hours.

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  • BridgeBot Could Save Millions in Bridge Repair Costs

    Switzerland has lots of bridges. In fact it has 3,500 motorway bridges and thousands more on cantonal roads over the lakes, rivers and valleys for which it’s famous, many of which are constructed from reinforced concrete.
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  • Are Inflated Concrete Homes The Answer to the World’s Housing Shortage?

    The concept of inflated concrete homes has been around since the 1960s but only now, as the world’s population continues to grow exponentially, is the technique being touted as a very real solution to the chronic housing shortage this century could bring with it.
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  • The Robot that Prints your Plans Directly onto the Ground

    There are two ways you can view the technology that could potentially join us on construction sites all over world in the next decade. You can see it as a threat or you can see it as progress: automated help that takes some of the more routine tasks off our to do lists, to let us humans get on with the exciting stuff. The things that (currently) only humans have the capability for, like vision and imagination.
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  • The World’s First ‘Invisible’ Skyscraper

    The world’s first ‘invisible’ skyscraper is here. Now when we say ‘invisible’, it’s perhaps more accurate to say that the building will have an inbuilt ‘cloaking device’. The illusion of transparency will be created by LED screens that cover the exterior of the structure, which are linked to cameras that are constantly filming the building’s surroundings. When the screens are turned on, this ‘cloaking device’ acts as a reflective skin that blends the skyscraper into the skyline. Effectively making the building invisible.
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  • Chinese Firm Uses 3D Printer to Print 10 Houses in a Day

    A Chinese construction firm based in Shanghai has succeeded in building 10 houses in 24 hours by using a huge 3D printer.
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