Richard Tillman has been charged with arson and vandalism in the alleged attack on a San Jose building over the weekend; his ...

Scientists in Stockholm have cooked up an eco-friendly building material using coconuts and lemons. This thermal material can store heat during the day and ... which means less energy used and more ...

The Town of Mansfield has partnered with ReCONNstruction Center, a nonprofit building reuse store in New Britain, to salvage building materials from Mansfield construction projects that are still ...

Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic cyanobacteria grow inside it, forming biomass and solid minerals and thus ...

Scientists in Germany have successfully turned urine into bio-concrete, as part of a project aiming to revolutionize sustainable construction by creating building materials from waste.

The residential construction industry is all about one trendy material this year, as evidenced at the annual Providence expo.

Workers said poor-quality materials were used during construction by a Chinese developer as it sought to cut costs. Investigators also said they found substandard steel bars in the rubble.

A spark in the sea Scientists have created a carbon-negative building material using just seawater and electricity, according to a study published in the journal Advanced Sustainable Systems.

Modifying common building materials In the present work, a team of civil engineers and earth systems scientists led by Elisabeth van Roijen (then a PhD student at UC Davis) calculated how much carbon ...

Overcoming Challenges in Carbon Storage Materials The study highlights that the carbon storage potential depends more on the volume of material used (e.g., cement, which stores less carbon per unit ...

Conway Architectural Salvage and Heritage Project shares how they’re working to preserve history while repurposing.

Building materials designed to store CO2 could be the key to meeting global climate targets Instead of costly and risky strategies for carbon storage, researchers wondered just how much storage ...