
Building & Construction
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At a glance 1 min
PURPLE #SOLO, environmentally-friendly urban paving
French start-up Purple Alternative Surface has developed a small 50 cm hexagonal, clip-together paver, an innovative, eco-responsible and modular solution to meet the challenges of recycling and soil ...
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Daily life 5 min
Architecture: polymers in the limelight
Although plastics have long been used in the building industry, they were initially used mainly for their functional properties. Little by little, architects have taken a different look at them and be...
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Expert views 5 min
Ferrari: “The diversity of polymers and our sense of innovation are the keys to our success”
An interview with Françoise Fournier, tensile architecture market manager at Serge Ferrari, one of the world leaders in flexible composite materials....
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At a glance 2 min
Building differently with WallE+
Although the name of Wall-E might initially conjure up the image of the little cleaning robot from the eponymous animated film, it is also the name of a prefabricated module made of composites with a ...