Coastal Development and Shrinking Marine Habitat – a Problem for AllNearly 60% of the human population lives along coastlines. As more people migrate to coastal urban centers, increasing coastal development and urbanization is inevitable. At the same time, climate change risks like flooding and stronger storms are already creating immense challenges. Pressures from water and … Continued
ECOncrete®’s technology was incorporated into unique living sculptures by the Mexican Artist Alberto Aragón Reyes, at the upcoming Art Basel in Miami. Two massive sculptures displayed publicly, part of a Living shoreline exhibition. Both sculptures composed of ECOncrete®’s bio-enhancing admix. “The Witness” with an admix tailored to enhance terrestrial flora. “The Fisherman”, composed of a marine tailored blend facilitating bio-recruitment of flora & Fauna.
Globes, Israel’s well-established financial newspaper, continues their follow up regarding ECOncrete®‘s latest achievements.
Engineering News-Record (ENR) publishes an editorial about ECOncrete®‘s latest achievements.
Globes, Israel’s well-established financial newspaper, covers ECOncrete®‘s latest achievements
Each year, Globes Magazine selects 40 of Israel’s most promising individuals under the age of 40 and includes them in a designated issue called G-40. We are proud to post that Dr. Ido Sella, our co-founder and CTO was chosen as one of those talented individuals. Congratulations!
The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation approved $ 850K in funding for a collaborative R&D project by ECOncrete® and Besser Company (a world leader in concrete products machinery). The project, entitled: Bio-enhanced drycast concrete products that mitigate climate impacts will be launched in Q1 of 2016, and entail development of two innovative products aimed at reducing the ecological footprint of urban and coastal structures.
ICE Virtual Library published ECOncrete®‘s paper titled “Harnessing Urban Coastal Infrastructure for Ecological Enhancement” in their themed issue on coastal management 2015. (Volume 168 Issue 3, September, 2015, pp. 102-110).
ECOncrete® congratulates New York Harbor Schools’ Tahirah Abdo for her amazing achievements. Based upon her ECOncrete’s research project, Tahirah won second place at the NYC Science and Engineering Fair over all high school’s in NYC, and will receive a full scholarship to an Ivy league top college! Keep up the great work!!! (and congratulations Mauricio!!!!)
ECOncrete®‘s solution for practical coastline protection is simply explained in an article by Forbes