{"id":87274,"date":"2019-01-31T15:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/is-self-healing-concrete-technology-the-future-of-construction"},"modified":"2019-01-31T15:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:02:39","slug":"is-self-healing-concrete-technology-the-future-of-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/is-self-healing-concrete-technology-the-future-of-construction","title":{"rendered":"Is self-healing concrete technology the future of construction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-self-healing-concrete-technology-the-future-of-construction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Building cracks and deterioration are common points of concern for asset owners and managers alike, but a new technology may soon alleviate these industry issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Cambridge are using micro-encapsulation technologies developed by Dolomite Microfluidics to develop self-healing construction materials.<\/p>\n<p>The university\u2019s Department of Engineering\u2019s Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group said last month that it is developing microcapsules containing \u2018healing\u2019 agents such as minerals, epoxy, or polyurethane which can be added to building materials to allow the self-repair of small cracks that develop over time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionweekonline.com\/products-services\/168915-is-self-healing-concrete-the-future-of-construction-technology\">https:\/\/www.constructionweekonline.com\/products-services\/168...technology<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building cracks and deterioration are common points of concern for asset owners and managers alike, but a new technology may soon alleviate these industry issues. Researchers at the University of Cambridge are using micro-encapsulation technologies developed by Dolomite Microfluidics to develop self-healing construction materials. The university\u2019s Department of Engineering\u2019s Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87274","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}