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An Austin-based construction technologies company on a mission to make safe, affordable housing using 3D printer technology.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
Step on a crack, break your mother's back! But what if the concrete never cracks? A microbiologist has invented living, self-patching concrete.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
Move over Tesla, a collaborator of Swiss Companies has created a prototype dump truck that might even be able to sell electricity back to the grid!
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In the search for more sustainable construction materials, a California artist is making bricks out of fungus, and they are stronger than concrete.
- Added: Apr 04, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In this episode, Laura speaks with Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of those narratives. They are “unforgetting” histories suppressed...
Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Stack your your stones and let walls join
to make an old-school building quoin.
This is Episode 99 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal sh...
- Added: Dec 01, 2020
- Length: 03:18
This week on the Show: Struggle for survival -
This week, we look at how melting sea ice is threatening the survival of polar bears in the Arct...
Bought by WRGY, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
Pablo Trapero is one of the four or five most highly acclaimed Argentine film directors. His first film, Crane World, released in 1999, put him on ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 03:45
Demolition Truck hauling wood, glass, concrete, etc. into a large metal trash container. 10:30am, sunny, breezy, 65 degrees. Recorded less than 50 ...
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 03:26
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 04:26
- Purchases: 1
In the most recent election, San Francisco voters approved a $500-million transportation bond for projects like BART escalators, traffic signals, b...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 07:56
- Purchases: 1
When work began to rebuild the Calaveras Dam, Paleontologist Jim Walker was called to the scene to hunt for fossils. He expected to find a few, but...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 1
Destination DIY producer Califia Suntree spoke to two women who built their own tiny houses about living a minimalist lifestyle. The houses are bot...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 07:40
- Purchases: 2
The New York City Subway is a complex system that keeps NYC running and it is still being built. Hear the reasons for the initial construction, the...
Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 14, 2013
- Length: 08:43
- Purchases: 5
Generations discuss the changes in building materials
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Generational discussion on the evolution of building materials
- Added: Mar 18, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Engineer and brickmason Dr. Elizabeth Hausler saves lives by making houses more earthquake resistant for little or no extra money. It just requires...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 25, 2012
- Length: 18:40
- Purchases: 1
Vijay Govindarajan, co-creator of the $300 House Project, discusses the genesis of the idea, how it’s different from mere cheap housing, and his ho...
- Added: Sep 25, 2011
- Length: 15:12
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 30, 2011
- Length: 34:02
The 24th segment of The Infrastructure Show podcast series; 2-11
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 36:20
Half the world now lives in cities, and they are growing. Are megacities an opportunity or a threat?
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Sep 28, 2010
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Special on super low-energy building. Architect Guido Wimmers on "Passivhaus" (Canada's first); Tom Pittsley on solar mass windows (sun heat in Mas...
- Added: Apr 02, 2010
- Length: 53:00
- Added: May 27, 2009
- Length: 23:16
