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Bringing nanotechnology into construction
Mark Bowers, a consultant in Arup’s advanced technology and research group, has spent several years exploring the potential applications of nanotechnology in the built environment. I spoke to him about...
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Pushing the boundaries of renewable energy storage
Renewable energy generation has risen dramatically in recent years in the United States, but we still have a long way to go: 87% of the nation’s electricity still comes from fossil fuels. Arup’s North...
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The classroom of tomorrow
How will tomorrow’s classrooms look and perform? How can design help future-proof educational environments? These questions were at the heart of one of our recent projects, the Yale School of...
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Joseph Paradiso on smart buildings
The Internet of Things promises to send smartphones and laptops the way of the room-sized computer, allowing us to interface more productively with the physical world via wearable technologies that...
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Why use old data for new buildings?
A recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that the effects of climate change are already being felt around the globe, leading to serious problems in...
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Peering into the future of the built environment
Faced with ever-shorter cycles of change, communities, governments, and businesses increasingly recognize the need to prepare for a broad spectrum of possible futures. Figuring out what this means and...
View ArticleResearch roundup: Rating resilience
Today’s research is tomorrow’s design. We’re asking researchers within Arup and beyond to describe their work and its potential applications. For our first post, San Francisco-based structural engineer...
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Futures past: Visions of the century of progress
The period between 1920 and 1950 witnessed more dramatic changes to the built environment than almost any other 30-year span in history, according to Martin Moeller, a curator at Washington DC’s...
View ArticleResearch roundup: Better cities through… asparagus?
Today’s research is tomorrow’s design. We’re asking researchers within Arup and beyond to describe their work and its potential applications. Martin Pauli, an architect and materials specialist in our...
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Designing for rapid change and a cloudy future
We exist in a world of perpetual, rapid-fire innovation, fueled mostly by the need for enterprises of all sorts to maintain competitive advantage. At times it seems as if change is destabilizing every...
View ArticleResearch roundup: City action on climate change
Today’s research is tomorrow’s design. We’re asking researchers within Arup and beyond to describe their work and its potential applications. Harriet O’Brien and Annie Gibbons, energy and climate...
View ArticleResearch roundup: The walking city
Today’s research is tomorrow’s design. We’re asking researchers within Arup and beyond to describe their work and its potential applications. Demetrio Scopelliti, an architect in our Milan office,...
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Research roundup: Water resilience in dry climates
Today’s research is tomorrow’s design. We’re asking researchers within Arup and beyond to describe their work and its potential applications. Rowan Roderick-Jones, an environmental scientist and civil...
View ArticleNew frontiers for digital graphics in the built environment
Boundary-pushing experiments from media and software companies like the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Tableau are revolutionizing digital graphics, raising public expectations for...
View ArticleVisualizing zoning futures
Today’s research is tomorrow’s design. We’re asking researchers within Arup and beyond to describe their work and its potential applications. Jordan Woodson, a structural engineer in Arup’s Washington...
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Can we ensure energy resilience after a disaster?
Today’s research is tomorrow’s design. We’re asking researchers within Arup and beyond to describe their work and its potential applications. Russell Carr, an electrical engineer in our San Francisco...
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A water expert looks to the future
Water plays a major role in many of the planet’s most pressing challenges, from food security to political instability. With a resource so critical and a set of related issues so complex, how do...
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[Y]our future, according to Chris Luebkeman
How do you design for something that hasn’t happened yet? Predicting how the world will look in the future and shaping buildings, parks, streets — really everything — accordingly seems impossible. But...
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The future is fiction
Around the start of the 20th century, a number of French artists, including Jean-Marc Côté, depicted their visions of the future in the form of illustrated postcards. They imagined life in the year...
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Tomorrow’s architecture, starring algae and hemp
Walking past the BIQ apartment building in Hamburg, Germany, you’ll see a variation on solar power not found anywhere else in the world. Inside 129 bubbling bioreactors attached to the façade, algae...
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