by Sara Hart
Architects still build much the same way their predecessors did in the fifteenth century — one foundation, brick, stone or panel at a time — without a comparable improvement in quality except at great expense. Kieran and Timberlake's prize-winning research investigates ways to build better, faster and less expensively while incorporating new technologies, specifically transfer technologies from other disciplines and industries, and by interfacing between four disciplines: materials science, product engineering, architecture and construction.
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