In a collaborative study on sustainable building materials, researchers from Spain’s University of Seville and Glasgow’s University of Strathclyde have created bricks that contain sheep’s wool and a ...

Spanish and Scottish researchers have added wool fibres to the clay material used to make bricks and combined these with an alginate, a natural polymer extracted from seaweed. The result is bricks ...

Products from ten companies have been selected as finalists for the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Challenge sponsored by the Schmidt Family Foundation and the Dutch Postcode Lottery. Three ...

Research into the creation of sustainable building materials has lead researchers in Scotland and Spain to develop bricks made from clay, seaweed, and sheep's wool.

The creation of composite building materials stretches from antiquity, where straw and mud were formed into bricks for construction, to the modern era, where complex composites are used in spacecraft.

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