Imagine you've just gotten to Mars as part of the first contingent of settlers. Your first challenge: build a long-term ...

Urban housing projects and imported materials. Buildings based on local content are those where the planning, designing, constructing, repairing, maintaining and deconstructing support the use of ...

This project, led by PI Mija Hubler, will develop a framework to facilitate the use of local, low-embedded carbon materials. Understanding how to mix cement with local materials is a major barrier to ...

The research showed that if a housing project focused on using local content, more than 90% of the capital costs for new buildings could be spent in the local economy.