Top 10 sustainable building materials for reducing embodied carbon, improving efficiency, and meeting modern construction ...

Building an eco mini house from small wooden barrels is a fun and sustainable project. Using recycled materials allows you to ...

Typically, when you want to build a high rise, you need iron, steel, cement, concrete; materials that are super strong and durable but also come with a high carbon footprint. Now, some builders are ...

A team at RMIT University has created a cement-free construction material using only cardboard, soil, and water. Strong ...

Construction is on its way to becoming greener. New research describes a method of creating building material that is not only carbon-neutral — meaning it does not produce any carbon emissions — but ...

Concrete is a crucial construction material. Unfortunately, however, producing it requires large amounts of energy—often powered by fossil fuels—and includes chemical reactions that release carbon ...

A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...

Building material costs have risen sharply over six years, with tariffs on steel and lumber adding pressure to homebuilding ...

Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results show that this material -- which is manufactured with living cells at low ...