{"id":206606,"date":"2025-02-17T02:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T08:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/how-good-old-mud-can-lower-building-costs"},"modified":"2025-02-17T02:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T08:38:14","slug":"how-good-old-mud-can-lower-building-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/how-good-old-mud-can-lower-building-costs","title":{"rendered":"How good old mud can lower building costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-good-old-mud-can-lower-building-costs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buildings cost a lot these days. But when concrete buildings are being constructed, there\u2019s another material that can make them less expensive: mud.<\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers have developed a method to use lightly treated mud, including soil from a building site, as the \u201cformwork\u201d molds into which concrete is poured. The technique deploys 3D printing and can replace the more costly method of building elaborate wood formworks for concrete construction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve demonstrated is that we can essentially take the ground we\u2019re standing on, or waste soil from a construction site, and transform it into accurate, highly complex, and flexible formwork for customized concrete structures,\u201d says Sandy Curth, a PhD student in MIT\u2019s Department of Architecture who has helped spearhead the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buildings cost a lot these days. But when concrete buildings are being constructed, there\u2019s another material that can make them less expensive: mud. MIT researchers have developed a method to use lightly treated mud, including soil from a building site, as the \u201cformwork\u201d molds into which concrete is poured. The technique deploys 3D printing and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206606","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}