https://www.bizcommunity.com/440/493.html Europe Building Materials news 15 Materials & Equipment news - Europe https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/440/493.html en-us Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:33:57 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/494/234167.html In June 2022, a fire outbreak at a hospital construction site in Istanbul, Turkey, destroyed most of the newly installed medical and security devices, and injured three people. A few days later, firefighters from West Fargo in North Dakota attended a flaming construction site behind the town's Costco. And a month after that, a blaze broke out at a railway development in Stuttgart, Germany. 1-234167 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:17:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Europe https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/492/234124.html Drones are already shaping the face of our cities - used for building planning, heritage, construction and safety enhancement. But, as studies by the UK's Department of Transport have found, swathes of the public have a limited understanding of how drones might be practically applied. 1-234124 Fri, 02 Dec 2022 10:03:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Europe https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/231437.html The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved Saint-Gobain's greenhouse gas emission reduction targets as consistent with the organisation's new net-zero standard and the Paris Climate Agreement. Committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, Saint-Gobain is the first company in its sector worldwide to receive this approval since the introduction of the new standard at the end of last year. 1-231437 Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:57:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Europe https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/494/225564.html 3D printed concrete may lead to a shift in architecture and construction. Because it can be used to produce new shapes and forms that current technologies struggle with, it may change the centuries-old processes and procedures that are still used to construct buildings, resulting in lower costs and saved time. 1-225564 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:32:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Europe https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/213139.html One of the big contributors to climate change is right beneath your feet, and transforming it could be a powerful solution for keeping greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. 1-213139 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:50:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Europe https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/210306.html Designing buildings so they can easily be taken apart and the materials reused provides a feasible and commercial pathway for minimising waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Our research shows one such Curtin University building, the Legacy Living Lab in Fremantle, reduces construction waste and cuts emissions to almost a tenth of what a conventional building process would produce. 1-210306 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:16:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Europe https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/207771.html August 22 was Earth Overshoot Day, which marks the date when humanity's demand for ecological resources in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. This results from massive consumption of ecological resources and accumulation of waste. A large portion of this comes from heavy industry and the way we build our cities. 1-207771 Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:39:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Europe https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/440/493/128957.html Vancouver-based architect Michael Green was unequivocal at a conference at which I heard him speak a while ago: "We grow trees in British Columbia that are 35 storeys tall, so why do our building codes restrict timber buildings to only five storeys?" 1-128957 Wed, 27 May 2015 09:54:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Europe https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/75/493/126764.html GENEVA: The boards of France's Lafarge and Switzerland's Holcim have approved Eric Olsen for the role of chief executive officer once the firms merge, creating the world's biggest cement company, they announced on Thursday, 9 April. 1-126764 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 07:16:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Europe https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/205/493/111812.html GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: Switzerland's Holcim confirmed that it is in merger talks with its French rival Lafarge in a deal that would create the world's largest cement company. 1-111812 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 09:43:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment Europe