{"id":197651,"date":"2024-10-14T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/engineers-3d-print-sturdy-glass-bricks-for-building-structures"},"modified":"2024-10-14T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:24:06","slug":"engineers-3d-print-sturdy-glass-bricks-for-building-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/engineers-3d-print-sturdy-glass-bricks-for-building-structures","title":{"rendered":"Engineers 3D Print Sturdy Glass Bricks for Building Structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-3d-print-sturdy-glass-bricks-for-building-structures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The interlocking bricks, which can be repurposed many times over, can withstand similar pressures as their concrete counterparts. Engineers developed a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed, recycled glass. The bricks could be reused many times over in building facades and internal walls.<\/p>\n<p>What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building\u2019s lifetime and reassembled into a new structure, in a sustainable cycle that could supply generations of buildings using the same physical building blocks.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the idea behind circular construction, which aims to reuse and repurpose a building\u2019s materials whenever possible, to minimize the manufacturing of new materials and reduce the construction industry\u2019s \u201cembodied carbon,\u201d which refers to the greenhouse gas emissions associated with every process throughout a building\u2019s construction, from manufacturing to demolition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interlocking bricks, which can be repurposed many times over, can withstand similar pressures as their concrete counterparts. Engineers developed a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed, recycled glass. The bricks could be reused many times over in building facades and internal walls. What if construction materials could be put together and taken [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1902,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioengineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}