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Construction

They built an entire village of houses with their own hands made of earth and old tires, in the ecovillage Aardehuis, in the Netherlands, where 44 residents live in Earthships that generate almost all the energy, heat with the sun, and treat sewage in their own garden.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 15/06/2026 at 13:47

Construction

While a common construction still relies on months of masonry work, debris, and a blown budget, ready-made houses that arrive by truck, 3D-printed walls, and robots that lay blocks are beginning to transform construction into an assembly line.

Noel Budeguer 05/06/2026 at 13:17

Construction

In just 24 days, China erected 7,733 foldable houses alongside nearly 10,000 tents and sheltered over 47,000 residents in one of the highest and most inhospitable regions on the planet, in what is considered the fastest housing deployment in history.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 02/06/2026 at 21:20

Construction

Thousands of houses in Brazil have slabs and pillars concreted with construction site mixers, and most owners are unaware that, without strict control of the dosage, this can compromise the structure’s strength and create risks that only appear years later, according to engineers and technical standards.

Bruno Teles 02/06/2026 at 20:02

Construction

Homeowners are suing Elon Musk’s SpaceX for severe structural damage to their homes caused by rocket tests in Texas.

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 11/05/2026 at 19:00

Construction

This monolithic dome house is almost indestructible, resists EF5 tornadoes and Category 5 hurricanes, cuts energy by up to 75%, and yet there are fewer than 900 units in the US because of an unexpected barrier: financing.

Carla Teles 05/05/2026 at 22:31

Construction

With the urgency for housing rising in New York, churches are transforming empty parking lots and unused land into affordable housing, and projects are already delivering real units in neighborhoods across the city.

Flavia Marinho 22/04/2026 at 14:36

Interesting facts

The construction of houses with cement wood blocks is surprising workers; it uses a direct fitting system without complications and can make the work up to 100 times faster than the conventional method.

Flavia Marinho 17/04/2026 at 20:35

Interesting facts

Two years after the floods, Rio Grande do Sul still has ghost villages, uprooted houses, and families in containers with sewage; unfulfilled promises without official response and donations become the last chance to start over.

Carla Teles 05/04/2026 at 16:34

Interesting facts

Chinese Businessman Who Got Rich in the Steel Industry Returns to His Village, Demolishes Old Wooden Houses, and Helps Build 72 Modern Homes Given Free to Former Residents

Noel Budeguer 10/03/2026 at 07:14

Construction

Coffee Husks That Were Once Discarded Become Affordable Homes Made From Recycled Plastic, Assembled in About 7 Days, Resistant to Moisture and Fire, Sold for Less Than a Used Car, and Seen as a Solution to Housing Deficit

Noel Budeguer 01/03/2026 at 18:28

Depósito de sal mais antigo que os dinossauros pode armazenar 6.000 toneladas de hidrogênio e gerar 100 GWh de energia.

Science and Technology

Salt Deposit Older Than Dinosaurs Could Become Giant “Superbattery” Storing Enough Energy to Power Up to 20 Million Homes for a Day

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 22/02/2026 at 14:01

They built an entire village of houses with their own hands made of earth and old tires, in the ecovillage Aardehuis, in the Netherlands, where 44 residents live in Earthships that generate almost all the energy, heat with the sun, and treat sewage in their own garden.

While a common construction still relies on months of masonry work, debris, and a blown budget, ready-made houses that arrive by truck, 3D-printed walls, and robots that lay blocks are beginning to transform construction into an assembly line.

In just 24 days, China erected 7,733 foldable houses alongside nearly 10,000 tents and sheltered over 47,000 residents in one of the highest and most inhospitable regions on the planet, in what is considered the fastest housing deployment in history.

Homeowners are suing Elon Musk’s SpaceX for severe structural damage to their homes caused by rocket tests in Texas.

This monolithic dome house is almost indestructible, resists EF5 tornadoes and Category 5 hurricanes, cuts energy by up to 75%, and yet there are fewer than 900 units in the US because of an unexpected barrier: financing.

With the urgency for housing rising in New York, churches are transforming empty parking lots and unused land into affordable housing, and projects are already delivering real units in neighborhoods across the city.

The construction of houses with cement wood blocks is surprising workers; it uses a direct fitting system without complications and can make the work up to 100 times faster than the conventional method.

Two years after the floods, Rio Grande do Sul still has ghost villages, uprooted houses, and families in containers with sewage; unfulfilled promises without official response and donations become the last chance to start over.

Chinese Businessman Who Got Rich in the Steel Industry Returns to His Village, Demolishes Old Wooden Houses, and Helps Build 72 Modern Homes Given Free to Former Residents

Coffee Husks That Were Once Discarded Become Affordable Homes Made From Recycled Plastic, Assembled in About 7 Days, Resistant to Moisture and Fire, Sold for Less Than a Used Car, and Seen as a Solution to Housing Deficit

Salt Deposit Older Than Dinosaurs Could Become Giant “Superbattery” Storing Enough Energy to Power Up to 20 Million Homes for a Day

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.