Building using live materials

As long as construction is associated with concrete, cement, and iron, this is what we have seen for centuries, but now there is a new step in construction using sand, bacteria, and aqueous jelly (hydrogel).

It is known that cement and concrete produce a lot of environmental damage. Scientists have succeeded in producing a substance called bio-mineralization.

This material is a mixture of bacteria, sand, and hydrogel, and it works to bond the sand with the internal supports in its midst, that is, it makes as cement and replaces it.

This process enables the production of building brick molds, such as ordinary building bricks, but in a dynamic way and has the same characteristics as ordinary brick in terms of durability, strength, and hardness.

These blue bacteria used can produce the calcium carbonate needed in a building like regular building mixtures, but in a vital way through photosynthesis.

How does this process work?

Building molds, such as common molds, are filled with sand and the addition of previous materials that add hardness and strength to the mold and make it into the strength of the regular brick mold by making the necessary hardness of sand through the process of bio-mineralization is done at a specific temperature and humidity level appropriate for that process.

Not only that, but eight building blocks can be produced through a single brick mold by controlling the temperature and humidity and taking the part of a building block and adding sand to it and controlling the reproduction of these bacteria where we can produce many molds with the same efficiency and power without wasting the materials used, only by controlling Moisture and heat in the process of bio-mineralization.

The uses of bio-mineralization

It is used in building and repairing cracks in buildings because it is environment friendly and can withstand harsh construction conditions in environments with an alkaline or acidic environment, dry environments, or with severe moisture or salinity.

There is a trend to use new bacteria that have the same properties that absorb the sunlight and illuminate it at night, and that technology is still under experiment and its purpose to provide night lighting and reduce the use of electricity.

Scientists are now seeking to make a formula that works to heal the cracks by itself only by directing the sun's rays or strong lighting to them working to bridge the cracks In dams and in buildings and they are self-propagating to fill these cracks.

There are no limits to science and every day we are dazzled by the progress we can make