Luna: A moon on Earth
MIT students and faculty designed and fabricated a control room for a unique lunar landing mission — an achievement in design and engineering.
Rebuilding Ukraine
A collaboration between MIT professors of urban studies and planning and the Association of Ukrainian Cities aims to empower Ukraine’s municipal leaders to drive recovery after the war.
How good old mud can lower building costs
Builders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make these structures out of on-site soil.
Enabling a circular economy in the built environment
A better understanding of construction industry stakeholders’ motivations can lead to greater adoption of circular practices.
Admir Masic: Using lessons from the past to build a better future
The associate professor of civil and environmental engineering studies ancient materials while working to solve modern problems.
With sustainable cement, startup aims to eliminate gigatons of CO₂
Sublime Systems, founded by Professor Yet-Ming Chiang and former postdoc Leah Ellis, has developed a sustainable way to make one of the world’s most common materials.
MIT announces 2024 Bose Grants
The grants fund studies of clean hydrogen production, fetal health-sensing fabric, basalt architecture, and shark-based ocean monitoring.
Think globally, rebuild locally
In order to recycle construction materials, keep them close to home, a new study of Amsterdam suggests.
Cleaning up one of the world’s most commonly used substances
C-Crete, founded by Rouzbeh Savary PhD ’11, has created a cement alternative that could significantly reduce the industry’s carbon dioxide emissions.
MIT announces 2023 Bose Grants for daring new research
Grants fund studies of honeybee tracking, glass building materials, and defining excellence in human movement.
Jackson Jewett wants to design buildings that use less concrete
The PhD student is honing algorithms for designing large structures with less material — helping to shrink the construction industry’s huge carbon footprint.
3 Questions: Boosting concrete’s ability to serve as a natural “carbon sink”
MIT CSHub postdoc Damian Stefaniuk unpacks new research to bolster concrete’s natural carbon sequestration potential by adding sodium bicarbonate in mixes.
MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
Made of cement, carbon black, and water, the device could provide cheap and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources.
3 Questions: Leveraging carbon uptake to lower concrete’s carbon footprint
MIT CSHub Deputy Director Hessam AzariJafari is conducting vital research to investigate the impacts of concrete's carbonation across its life cycle.
New additives could turn concrete into an effective carbon sink
MIT engineers discover new carbonation pathways for creating more environmentally friendly concrete.