Meanwhile, sales excluding food services, auto dealers, building materials stores and gasoline stations, which are used to calculate GDP, were down 0.2%, below an upwardly revised 0.5% gain in ...

While concrete remains the most widely used building material globally with approximately four billion tons produced annually, its hefty environmental price tag pushes the construction sector to ...

Before being used for homes, fences or other construction, a lot more testing is needed to find a living building material to replace ... local home improvement store any time soon.

With a share of 46%, concrete is the dominant building material in this "material store," followed by sand-lime brick and ... there are around 2.86 billion tons of CO 2 equivalent in the materials ...

A final element in their calculation was to replace all plastics used in construction today with bio ... leveraging existing technology – namely conventional building materials – as a way to store CO ...

Join us as the nonprofit highlights the value of using historic building materials to revive our local communities. Conway Salvage will be deconstructing the Road Runner Antiques in Conway to save ...

Even though these materials could store only a small amount of carbon by weight ... “Therefore, even if they are only used in a building with a lifetime 70 years, they will likely continue to store ...

Cladding is a skin of insulating materials ... building regulations in place at the time, can sue the contractors and designers responsible, and in some cases the manufacturer of the materials ...

Used since the 19th century—typically as a rural, rustic building material—straw has been a DIY solution for affordable, earth-friendly construction. But a new wave of contemporary straw ...