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MIT: How Good Old Mud Can Lower Building Costs
January 25, 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

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Builders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make these structures out of on-site soil.

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By Peter Dizikes, MIT News

Buildings cost a lot these days. But when concrete buildings are being constructed, there's another material that can make them less expen . . .

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