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3D printing in textiles: The future is (almost) now
February 1st, 2025
The 3D printed “pixels” from Stratasys’ machines can be created to have iridescence and lenticular effects. While companies in arenas ranging from jewelry to aerospace are now familiar with using 3D printing to fabricate parts and other objects, “3D printing textiles is a newer concept,” says Jack Forman, doctoral student at the Center for Bits […]
Cultivating the next generation of leadership
February 1st, 2025
Like everything else COVID-19 hit, the pandemic delivered a blow to workplace leadership development, says Oren Margolis, founder of Pinetree & Palm Consulting. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., the firm specializes in coaching founders, executives and high achievers to optimize performance and align personal and professional goals. “It’s been really hard for folks to focus […]
Advances in textile recycling
February 1st, 2025
Materials regeneration company Reju™ has textile circularity as its mission and is working with industry partners such as WM® and Goodwill in the U.S. to develop regional systems for collection and recycling. Image: Reju Many consider advanced textile recycling, including chemical, enzymatic and molecular technologies, to be the path to true circularity, making waste into […]
Four-dimensional leadership
February 1st, 2025
Traditional leadership philosophies focus on what it takes for a leader to have sway over a team, to drive toward an outcome and to create coordinated movement. These aspects of reaching a goal are critical components of leadership, but they are one-dimensional. Four-dimensional leadership asks leaders to enhance their abilities by developing additional leadership dimensions, […]
Blue and green roofs use many kinds of geosynthetics
February 1st, 2025
Microsoft offices in Vancouver, B.C., Canada’s downtown Gastown. The ZinCo-designed semi-intensive green roof features various trees, grasses, perennials and sedums in its rooftop amenity space. Image: ZinCo In the global push to lower buildings’ carbon footprint and energy and water use, some look to blue and green roof construction. These roofs can help combat urban […]
GuildWorks gives a California park its first shade
February 1st, 2025
River Park in Petaluma, Calif., is transforming. Its inaugural structure is the peninsula’s first shaded area—there aren’t even any trees—underneath a shade sail array composed of diamond shapes and providing a covered area more than 70 feet in diameter. It rises 20 feet and was created by GuildWorks LLC of Portland, Ore. “We see our […]