{"id":213401,"date":"2025-05-07T01:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/bio-concrete-from-urine-researchers-develop-sustainable-building-material"},"modified":"2025-05-07T01:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:03:15","slug":"bio-concrete-from-urine-researchers-develop-sustainable-building-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/bio-concrete-from-urine-researchers-develop-sustainable-building-material","title":{"rendered":"Bio-concrete from urine: Researchers develop sustainable building material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bio-concrete-from-urine-researchers-develop-sustainable-building-material.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have used microbial processes to produce environmentally friendly bio-concrete from urine as part of a \u201cwastewater-bio-concrete-fertilizer\u201d value chain. With the project extension granted by the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts, the focus now shifts to product optimization and practical testing.<\/p>\n<p>Concrete is booming. Around 4 billion tons of cement are processed into concrete and used worldwide every year. With serious consequences for the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConventional cement is typically fired at temperatures around 1,450 degrees. This consumes a lot of energy and releases large quantities of greenhouse gases,\u201d says Professor Lucio Blandini, Head of the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have used microbial processes to produce environmentally friendly bio-concrete from urine as part of a \u201cwastewater-bio-concrete-fertilizer\u201d value chain. With the project extension granted by the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts, the focus now shifts to product optimization and practical testing. Concrete is booming. Around 4 billion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213401","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}