Tech innovations and Startups
Constructions
Real Estate
The potential of transparent wood in construction
Transparent wood is emerging as one of the most promising engineered materials for sustainable construction, combining optical performance, thermal insulation, and passive energy control in a single…
Stefania Del Bianco•15 January 2026
Pollution
Buildings become emission fighters with new…
A breakthrough in carbon capture could turn buildings into active allies against…
Alessia Bardi•28 October 2025
Real Estate
ViewScore, the software that measures visual…
Sustainable building design is expanding beyond energy efficiency to include visual comfort.…
Editorial Team•10 September 2025
Tech innovations and Startups
Coconuts increase the Concrete strength
Adding only 5% of coconut shell fragments increases concreteās resistance to compression and bending
16 October 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
From the USA the dynamic window that selectively blocks light and/or heat
A team of engineers has developed a new material that can tune glasses to the block…
28 September 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Natural fireproof coatings in construction, what if we used fungi?
The natural world helps us protect ourselves from fires (sustainabilityenvironment.com) - Fungi could inaugurate a new…
20 July 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Off-grid homes: in Canada a community of 67 villas “detached from the…
Off-grid homes are not connected to energy and water infrastructure, capable of producing clean energy for…
17 July 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
From the Fraunhofer comes the aerogel that costs 70% less with greater…
By modifying the aerogel production recipe, the Fraunhofer UMSICHT team obtained a half-thin, affordable building insulation…
23 June 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Smart heating thin as a sheet that turns walls into radiators
Despite a thickness of less than 0.1mm, the system developed by the Warming Surfaces Company is…
14 June 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Green building carbon neutral, when sugar cane replaces cement and brick
By combining sugar cane bagasse with a mineral binder, the University of East London and Grimshaw…
12 May 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Glass blocks to insulate the building thanks to aerogel insulation
Save on heating and light thanks to translucent glass blocks filled with insulating aerogel. The evolution…
21 April 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Cellulose aerogel to increase thermal insulation of windows
A team of physicists from the University of Colorado demonstrated how aerogels made from cellulose nanofibers…
21 March 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Fraunhofer reinvents thermal insulation with “sponge walls” and transparent laminated roofs
A glass foil cover that reduces the weight by 75% and a vertical water treatment system…
9 March 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Virtu, the hybrid solar panel for buildings that makes its way to…
The solar thermal-photovoltaic collector of the British Naked Energy expands its market through new agreements.
18 February 2023
Tech innovations and Startups
Perovskite thermochromic windows: the promising solution to save energy in buildings
The researchers of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the Doe have tried to insert a…
16 February 2023
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