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14/10/2024

Holcim and the Norman Foster Foundation have created a scalable prototype for affordable housing. The structure is covered in a rollable canvas containing low-carbon cement. https://loom.ly/m3GbCJE

Today, about 120 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes.

02/10/2024

Automated Architecture, a London-based construction tech startup, has developed what it calls a robotic micro-factory to build high-quality sustainable homes at affordable prices. https://loom.ly/2CQ9hK0

An unfortunate fact of stick-built home construction is that much of the wood ends up wasted.

21/08/2024

A perennial winner of the Housing Innovation Awards, Healthy Communities, looks to the DOE’s new definition of zero emissions buildings to boost construction of more efficient homes. https://loom.ly/-Pd6WLM

Healthy Communities looks to the DOE’s new definition of zero emissions buildings to boost construction of more efficient and healthy homes.

05/08/2024

Alquist, a 3D-printed home technology company, has launched a first-of-its-kind curriculum program for those interested in entering the 3D construction printing workforce. https://loom.ly/RebZY6g

Utopia editors bring you the latest project news and technology trends in the 3D printed homes market

29/07/2024

To create off-planet housing, a NASA project grows fungi’s root-like structure so that it fills lightweight inflatables. The idea can work on Earth, too. https://loom.ly/F2wYl6k

To create off-planet housing, a NASA project grows fungi’s root-like structure so that it fills lightweight inflatables. The idea can work on Earth, too

15/07/2024

A recent survey by Opendoor reveals that home buyers and sellers ages 55 and over are emotionally attached to their current homes—but enthusiastic about purchasing their new ones. https://loom.ly/ZyK5q2g

“We hear directly from our customers just how emotional the moving process can be,” says Kerry Melcher, head of real estate at Opendoor, a company that buys and sells homes online.To get a better understanding of the emotions involved, Opendoor commissioned a survey, conducted in late 2023, of o...

29/05/2024

Black Buffalo 3D Corporation has broken ground on new 3D-printed home “LoMa,” the first International Code Council Evaluation Service (ICC-ES)-approved home to use load-bearing 3D-printed walls. https://loom.ly/bg4nzzY

Black Buffalo 3D has broken ground in Fort Worth’s Southside community with its pilot LoMa 3D-printed home at 100 W. Bolt St. The first of its kind in the world, the LoMa home utilizes technology that makes it the first International Code Council Evaluation Service (ICC-ES)-approved home to use lo...

28/05/2024

Launched by the nonprofit RMI, HomebuildersCAN helps single-family and low-rise multifamily builders address an often-overlooked problem in home construction: embodied carbon. https://loom.ly/SEYlT-E

Creating more efficient homes doesn’t just mean they’ll use less energy after they’re built. It also means the homes have a smaller carbon footprint before and as they’re built—by reducing the emissions from all their materials.

13/05/2024

Villa Homes—a top 10 finalist for the prestigious —aims to be "the Toyota of housing" by providing infill housing with prefabricated volumetric construction. https://loom.ly/sCSKIj4

When we think of building new homes, we might conjure up images of massive tracts of land being cleared for large developments with new roads, new sidewalks, and new utility lines. But infill housing—building homes on lots within already established neighborhoods—is an often-underappreciated opp...

23/04/2024

Tennessee-based manufacturer Modular Brands creates durable, energy-efficient SIPs and builds modular homes ranging from ADUs to luxury residences. https://loom.ly/XbsSBIE

The building panels manufactured by Tennessee-based MDLR Brands are so lightweight that just four people can carry a panel sheet measuring 8 by 32 feet. “You couldn’t have four men carry an 8-by-32 wooden or metal SIP,” says Harrison Langley, CEO, MDLR (pronounced “modular”) Brands.

18/04/2024

Florida-based Onx Homes builds with low-carbon concrete that can withstand 175 mph winds and delivers homes in only about 30 days. https://loom.ly/o3ENSVY

Before it could build resilient, high-performing homes across the country, Onx Homes decided it first needed to prove it could do so in a challenging climate. The offsite manufacturer, which launched in 2021, decided to build its initial homes in Florida.

21/03/2024

Stronger and lighter than concrete, RENCO USA’s composite blocks build homes by being stacked on top of each other, hammered, and glued into place. https://loom.ly/Ix0dTs4

A crew leader consults an assembly drawing with color-coded instructions, then calls out a color: blue, red, yellow. Another worker retrieves that color’s corresponding size of building blocks and hands them to a third worker—who uses a mallet to pound each block into place. A fourth worker uses...

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