This material has been used to build homes for over a century. But despite its popularity, availability, and low cost, it may ...

The nonprofit organization sells building materials for half the retail price, making home renovations more accessible during times of skyrocketing costs. "When you're remodeling your house ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — T2Earth, a sustainable building materials company, announces the launch of OnWood Plywood, an eco-friendly fire-retardant treated wood (FRTW). Made without toxic chemicals ...

Now, researchers have harnessed their capabilities to create a living building material that could be a sustainable alternative to cement and one day even repair itself. Nature has developed some ...

Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results, publishing April 16 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical ...

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 ...

“Using both metal for framing and often for the skin on the outside of the building showcases the material’s adaptability in profiles, colors, and textures,” Sander says. This approach does ...

Modern building materials and regulations changed that. Today, most buildings are made of materials such as cement and steel. In African countries that don’t make these products themselves ...

“An ongoing challenge facing home builders is the cost and availability of building materials. Since January 2021, inputs to residential construction saw price increases of just over 30 ...

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 ...

It is estimated that only about 8 per cent of building waste materials are recycled here compared to up to 90 per cent recycling rates of certain construction materials in some other European ...

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 ...