Flax is a very useful crop, being used in everything from e-racers to campers. With concrete being such a major contributor of carbon emissions, a team led by the Eindhoven University of Technology ...

The Eindhoven University of Technology-led (TU/e, Netherlands) EU project “Smart Circular Bridge” has recognized the potential of natural fiber by building three city bridges made from a biocomposite ...

Flax is a material that has been with us for thousands of years in the form of clothing, sacks, and ropes for ships. Nowadays, this old material has been ‘rediscovered’, and could become the building ...

In Germany and the Netherlands, an international consortium is working on three footbridges composed of flax fibre and resin from plant-based and synthetic materials. The first one has now been ...

The Eindhoven University of Technology has led a project building a bridge that is partly made from flax in The Netherlands, aiming to demonstrate the material's potential to replace steel in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. One of the smartest methods to prevent speeding accidents was just constructed in a coastal town in Uruguay. The architects at Rafael Viñoly Architects came up with an ...