Archinect - News2024-11-08T05:03:02-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150061966/this-app-tells-you-how-much-you-re-smoking-in-the-city-air-you-re-breathing
This app tells you how much you're “smoking” in the city air you're breathing Justine Testado2018-04-27T14:17:00-04:00>2018-04-27T14:17:29-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ls/lsvp3i1yl292skh9.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Shit, I Smoke! was created by Brazilian-born designer Marcelo Coelho and Paris-born app developer Amaury Martiny in just a week, after they read a study that analyzed air pollution and its equivalent to cigarette smoking. [...] Using the formula in [the study], [the app] uses live pollution data from hundreds of air quality stations in cities around the globe and converts the station’s PM2.5 number into the number of cigarettes being inhaled by a person in real time.</p></em><br /><br /><p>“For both Coelho and Martiny, the app isn’t only a useful tool to inform users about their city’s air quality; it also makes this information more accessible and easier to comprehend.”<br></p>
https://archinect.com/news/article/149947979/making-bricks-from-cigarette-butts-could-drastically-reduce-environmental-cost
Making bricks from cigarette butts could drastically reduce environmental cost Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2016-05-27T15:06:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/30/30k38khw7c17a74r.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>adding butts can cut the energy needed to fire bricks by up to 58 per cent.
Fired-clay bricks incorporated with cigarette butts were also lighter with better insulation properties – meaning reduced household heating and cooling costs.
Importantly, bricks incorporated with 1 per cent cigarette butts maintained properties very similar to those of normal bricks.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Related on Archinect:</p><ul><li><a title="New glow-in-the-dark cement could illuminate roads & structures" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149944693/new-glow-in-the-dark-cement-could-illuminate-roads-structures" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New glow-in-the-dark cement could illuminate roads & structures</a></li><li><a title="UCL researchers present a new kind of self-cleaning nano-engineered window " href="http://archinect.com/news/article/146283620/ucl-researchers-present-a-new-kind-of-self-cleaning-nano-engineered-window" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UCL researchers present a new kind of self-cleaning nano-engineered window</a></li><li><a title="MIT researchers have created a new material that stores and releases solar energy" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/145501201/mit-researchers-have-created-a-new-material-that-stores-and-releases-solar-energy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MIT researchers have created a new material that stores and releases solar energy</a></li><li><a title='How "smart" tintable glass will reduce our needs for air conditioning' href="http://archinect.com/news/article/127790631/how-smart-tintable-glass-will-reduce-our-needs-for-air-conditioning" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How "smart" tintable glass will reduce our needs for air conditioning</a></li></ul>