Tag: stronger
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Why design-build is the key to building smart and stronger
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Robert Brown is president and CEO of GCM Contracting Solutions, a design-build contractor in Southwest Florida. Opinions are the author’s own. For decades, the design-bid-build model has been the backbone of the U.S. construction industry. It has…
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Waste plant fibres make compressed earth blocks stronger, study finds
Plant fibres can increase compressed earth blocks’ strength by 12%, a study by the University of Portsmouth has found. Researchers at the School of Civil Engineering and Surveying examined the fresh and hardened properties of three raw earth mortar mixes to determine the extent to which plant fibres from agricultural waste could replace the cement…