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Essential Homes affordable housing prototype

Sustainability

A Sustainable Home for Displaced People

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

Shipping container homebuilding robots by Automated Architecture

Technology

These AI Robots Can Help Build Homes

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

222 Hog Mountain Circle Fleischmanns, N.Y.

Net Zero Homes

The LEED Homes Awards’ Single-Family Winners

The U.S. Green Building Council’s single-family winners include a remote refuge in the Catskill Mountains, a net-zero lakeside home in Michigan, and a high-tech Pueblo-style residence in the New Mexico desert

LSU Civil Engineering Professor Hai "Thomas" Lin

3D Printing

How Mud Dauber Wasps Inspired 3D-Printed Homes

A professor of civil and environmental engineering drew inspiration from mud daubers to imagine earthen buildings made of soil and the root-like structure of mushrooms

Healthy Home

Award-Winning Healthy Homes With Clean Air and Energy

A perennial winner of the Housing Innovation Awards, Virginia-based Healthy Communities looks to the DOE’s new definition of zero emissions buildings to boost construction of more efficient and healthy homes

Disruption

3D Printed Homes Project Tracker

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

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Sustainability

A Sustainable Home for Displaced People

Technology

These AI Robots Can Help Build Homes

Net Zero Homes

The LEED Homes Awards’ Single-Family Winners

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Healthy Home

Net Zero Homes

The LEED Homes Awards’ Single-Family Winners

Healthy Home

Award-Winning Healthy Homes With Clean Air and Energy

Bricks produced using mycelium, yard waste and wood chips as a part of the myco-architecture project. Similar materials could be used to build habitats on the Moon or Mars

Healthy Home

Sustainable Housing: Growing Homes From Fungi

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

Design

New Initiative Enables Builders to Reduce Embodied Carbon

Healthy Home

The Passive House Network Publishes Guidance for 2024

The “Building Certifier Scope of Services” provides clarification on steps taken to certify a building to Passive House Institute standards

Healthy Home

Concrete Wall Panels Help Build Noncombustible Homes

NileBuilt’s net-zero homes are built with concrete wall panels—creating fire, flood, and wind resilience

Technology

Sustainability

A Sustainable Home for Displaced People

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

Technology

These AI Robots Can Help Build Homes

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

3D Printing

How Mud Dauber Wasps Inspired 3D-Printed Homes

A professor of civil and environmental engineering drew inspiration from mud daubers to imagine earthen buildings made of soil and the root-like structure of mushrooms

Healthy Home

Award-Winning Healthy Homes With Clean Air and Energy

Disruption

3D Printed Homes Project Tracker

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

Builders

To Target Older Home Buyers and Sellers, Consider Their Emotions

Design

New Initiative Enables Builders to Reduce Embodied Carbon

Healthy Home

The Passive House Network Publishes Guidance for 2024

The “Building Certifier Scope of Services” provides clarification on steps taken to certify a building to Passive House Institute standards

Building Science

A System that Takes Developers and Builders from Design to Completion

By requiring fewer workers and less time, New Orleans-based Shibusa Systems aims to make homebuilding a more efficient and lucrative endeavor

Design

Sustainability

A Sustainable Home for Displaced People

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