A-Fold’s first modular house in Spain

In May this year, 2022, Italy-based A-Fold built its first modular wooden house in Spain.

The prefabricated, modular houses are designed to be sustainable and functional. Components are manufactured in A-Fold’s warehouse and then transported to and assembled on-site. Prospective customers choose from a range of designs and features pre-assembly and the materials have a low-environmental impact.

The ongoing housing crisis means there are too few houses for those attempting to buy, and those that are available are unaffordable. As a result of this there has been a rise in the trend of alternative housing, such as so called ‘tiny houses’ and prefabricated builds.

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The Calculator that Could Save the World

Professor David MacKay had a reputation for being the smartest person at Cambridge University – the University that educated Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Alan Turing, Dian Fossey, Ernest Rutherford, John Maynard Keynes, Michael Foale, David Attenborough, Emma Thompson and Professor Stephen Hawking.
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Putting clean concrete on trial

Concrete manufacturers and users have been working on new carbon-reducing recipes for the building material. One day, these may allow for fully carbon-free concrete. But
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Happy Birthday Engineering Matters!

Engineering Matters is two years old! For the past 24 months we have been telling stories about engineering that is solving some of the world’s

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