Sustainability

Digital Platforms: Catalysts for Sustainability Transitions in Construction

New research from TU Delft demonstrates how a Dutch digital platform for modular timber construction applies the DART co-creation framework to overcome the sector’s unique challenges of fragmentation, inefficiency and resistance to change, fostering stakeholder collaboration, transparency and scalable low-carbon practices. The construction industry accounts for approximately 40% of global energy use, around 30% of

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Bamboo Solutions for Mangrove Restoration

In Demak, Indonesia, a pilot deployment of bamboo and PVC permeable structures paired with systematic low-cost monitoring uncovers detailed seabed dynamics on a subsiding coast, highlighting both challenges and opportunities for nature-based mangrove restoration in complex coastal environments. Coastal Erosion and Subsidence: The Urgent Need for Effective Mangrove Restoration Mangroves provide essential coastal protection against

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Green Corridors as Blueprints for Sustainable Port-Cities

Forging “Zero-Emission Highways of the Sea”: New research maps how international collaboration between ports, cities, and industries is creating the first viable pathways to decarbonize global maritime trade. Zero-Emissions Shipping, in our cities and backyards Maritime shipping is the backbone of global trade but a major source of greenhouse gases, with emissions projected to surge

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The Great Fuel Cell Race: Which Hydrogen Technology Will Power Our Ships?

New research cracks the code on what will decide the winner in the battle to decarbonize shipping. For the first time, a systematic study reveals the key to dominance isn’t just technology—it’s cost. Why we must tackle maritime pollution, quickly The maritime industry is a massive polluter. To meet climate goals, it must ditch fossil

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