{"id":48007,"date":"2026-09-15T12:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=48007"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:36:50","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-robots-could-harvest-lava-from-volcanic-eruptions-to-make-concrete-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=48007","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019: Robots could harvest lava from volcanic eruptions to make &#8216;concrete&#8217; of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Reykjavik-based architect believes a lava flow could contain enough building material for the foundations of a city to rise in a matter of weeks, without the climate impacts associated with traditional construction, reports Sky News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sky News writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After repeated volcanic eruptions near a fishing town in Iceland\u2026 Arnhildur Palmadottir, founder and owner of Reykjavik-based s.ap arkitektar, says she and her son, Arnar Skarpheoinsson, came up with the idea in 2018\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 we thought, &#8216;whoa, I mean this is like molten concrete in a way, without the cement, so why can&#8217;t you just do something with it?&#8217; \u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their lava-forming proposal focuses on how the destructive force of lava might be used to transform the global construction industry\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/robots-could-harvest-lava-from-volcanic-eruptions-to-make-concrete-of-the-future-13576172\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reykjavik-based architect believes a lava flow could contain enough building material for the foundations of a city to rise in a matter of weeks, without the climate impacts associated with traditional construction, reports Sky News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[664,27,29,155],"class_list":["post-48007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-built-environment","tag-construction","tag-heritage","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48008,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48007\/revisions\/48008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}