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PostJuly 1, 2025

VAMO proposes an alternative to architectural permanence

VAMO (Vegetal, Animal, Mineral, Other), is an ultra-lightweight, biodegradable, and transportable canopy designed to circle around a brick column in the Corderie of the Venice Arsenale — a historic space originally used to manufacture ropes for the city’s naval fleet.

PostJune 2, 2025

AI stirs up the recipe for concrete in MIT study

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

A team led by Soroush Mahjoubi, a postdoc in civil and environmental engineering, built a machine-learning framework that evaluates and sorts candidate materials for cleaner concrete based on their physical and chemical properties. “Some of the most interesting materials that could replace a portion of cement are ceramics,” notes Mahjoubi. “Old tiles, bricks, pottery — all these materials may have high reactivity.”

PostMay 21, 2025

Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel

“Across the U.S., the typical bridge deck lasts about 30 years on average — we’re enabling 100-year lifetimes,” says Allium Engineering co-founder and CEO Steven Jepeal PhD ’21.

PostApril 17, 2025

Workshop explores new advanced materials for a growing world

C. Cem Tasan, an MIT professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Materials Research Laboratory, discusses his work on recycling steel.

PodcastApril 3, 2025

E4: The great indoors

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PostJanuary 10, 2025

Minimizing the carbon footprint of bridges and other structures

Before coming to MIT, 2024 MAD Design Fellow Zane Schemmer, who grew up in the mountains of Utah, earned a BS and MS in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, where his graduate work focused on seismic design.

PostDecember 11, 2024

Enabling a circular economy in the built environment

MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium

Concrete waste accounts for the majority of construction and demolition debris, representing over 60 percent of the total volume of more than 600 million tons in 2018.

PostSeptember 16, 2024

Affordable high-tech windows for comfort and energy savings

MIT Energy Initiative

At an event marking the opening of AeroShield's new pilot manufacturing facility in Waltham, Massachusetts, Aaron Baskerville-Bridges, co-founder and vice president of operations, shows an AeroShield prototype window with the ability to cut energy losses in half.

PostApril 17, 2024

Q&A: Claire Walsh on how J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative tackles t...

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Workers using stitching machines in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for the evaluation, "How Do Managers’ Beliefs about New Technologies Evolve? Informational Interventions and the Adoption of Energy-efficient Stitching Motors in Bangladesh"

PostOctober 13, 2023

Cleaning up one of the world’s most commonly used substances

C-Crete, founded by Rouzbeh Savary PhD ’11, has created a more sustainable cement binding material that could significantly reduce the industry’s CO2 emissions. Pictured is a photo of traditional concrete being poured.

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