WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- The Army Engineer Research and Development Center issued the following news release:
In the Arctic and similar extreme cold climates, quickly building fortifications can mean the difference between mission success or failure, or even life and death. But transporting construction materials in these environments is arduous and costly, and locally sourced materials such as wood or stone are extremely scarce, if not non-existent.
But these locations do have one potential construction material in abundance - snow.
Turning that snow into uniform, modular building blocks was the goal behind a research project recently conducted by a team of scientists from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Cold Re...