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Edible robots and robotic food — edible systems that perceive, process and act upon stimulation — could open a new range of opportunities in health care, environmental management and the promotion of healthier eating habits. For example, they could enable ...
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Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Célia Marine Küpfer, Numa Joy Bertola
The study explores an original idea that responds to the urgent need to reduce the detrimental environmental impacts of load-bearing floor construction in new buildings by reusing saw-cut reinforced concrete (RC) pieces salvaged from soon-to-be demolished ...
2024Optimization of the environmental impact of beams
In the European Union, building construction accounts for 40% of materials consumption, 40% of overall energy consumption, and 40% of waste production [1]. It is therefore essential to reduce the environmental impact of these structures. Various levers are ...
2023Questioning obsolescence: When does a dwelling reach the end of its life?
Buildings are demolished when they are considered obsolete, in other words, when they have reached the end of their lifespan. Demolition leads to waste; in Europe, construction and demolition waste accounts for approximately 25-30% of the total waste gener ...
2023A Reuse-Ready Timber Slab-and-Column System for Modular Building Structures
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Alex-Manuel Muresan, Edisson Xavier Estrella Arcos
The construction industry is a significant contributor to resource consumption and waste generation. To address this issue, component reuse has been proposed as a way to prevent valuable building elements from being discarded and avoid producing new ones. ...
Curran Associates, Inc.2023Advances in hydration and thermodynamics of cementitious systems
Karen Scrivener, Patrick Juilland, Aslam Kunhi Mohamed, Fabien Jacques Michel Georget, Thomas Matschei
Optimising the hydration of cementitious materials is crucial to leverage their full potential and avoid wasting resources, embodied energy and CO2. Understanding the fundamental mechanisms is key to reach these objectives. In this paper, we review progres ...
Oxford2023Printed degradable piezoelectric microsystems: From ink formulation to device fabrication and characterization
As the world moves further and further into the semiconductor era, the amount of waste generated from electronics ("e-waste") is increasing rapidly and unsustainably. Of particular note, alternatives to lead-based piezoelectric materials must be establishe ...
EPFL2023Decision support methodology for waste-to-value process integration
Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo
Waste treatment is a complex procedure that comprises multidimensional aspects. The challenges posed by the energy transition and international protocols emphasize the role of waste in its material and energy dimension. With an increasing population and li ...
EPFL2023A Framework for Autonomic Computing for In Situ Imageomics
In situ imageomics is a new approach to study ecological, biological and evolutionary systems wherein large image and video data sets are captured in the wild and machine learning methods are used to infer biological traits of individual organisms, animal ...
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc2023Addressing the challenges of homogeneity, quality control and waste handling in soil bio-cementation: A large-scale experiment
Lyesse Laloui, Dimitrios Terzis, Ray Harran
In an attempt to go beyond the conventional laboratory experiments widely reported in literature around the emerging technique of soil bio-cementation, this work addresses key challenges related to its large-scale application. Precisely, a state-of-the-art ...
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