Building durable, historic places in the 21st century entails using modern technologies, along with traditional materials like stone, brick, plaster. and wood.
This section is for collecting information about key enabling new technologies for successful, compact, remote, and resilient communities:
- Large-Scale 3D Printers
- Construction Machines and Materials
- 3D Printed Foamcrete
- Bacteria-derived epoxy
- Sandvick‘s cutting-edge construction machines
- “The Boring Company” compressed earth brick technology
- Hadrian X
- Finite Desert Sand Bricks
- Energy and Power
- Solar roofs with rainwater catchment
- Battery walls
- Geothermal cooling and heating
- Dark-sky compliant RGB lighting
- Water Supply
- Rainwater cisterns and stepwells
- UV and laser-based water treatment
- Atmospheric humidity water harvesting
- Waste
- Compact, hyper-efficient sewage treatment systems
- Composted organic waste stream into nutrient stream
- Zero-waste oriented supply chains
- Transportation
- E-bikes, trikes, and ultralight cargo vehicles
- Cycling and walking infrastructure
- Tropos Motors compact electric emergency and utility vehicles for urban environments
- Electric driverless rural transit
- Low-noise/silent airplanes and Uber air taxis
- Connectivity and Supply Chain
- Amazon delivery drones and air-drop shipments
- Local corner stores, street vending, and road-side stalls
- Rural high-speed Internet
- Ag/Food Tech
- Aquaponics and vertical farming
- Bioreactor protein production
- Holistic range management with satellite mob grazing
- Interiors and Domestic Tech
- Self-cleaning WC and bathroom tech
- Graphenstone surfaces
- Translucent high-strength wood fiber panel windows
- Recyclable and reusable Flor Tiles