Building Material

Recycling properly is more than just throwing an empty can in a bin. Here's how to do it the right way.

The Trump administration's plans to slap new tariffs on imports from Canada and other countries could set off new waves of inflation in home building.

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Georgia Forestry Foundation in partnership with the USDA Forest Service and the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB), is pleased to announce...

Dan Loeb said he is finding companies outside of the red-hot digital world appealing as he looks for overlooked opportunities beyond the "Magnificent Seven."

A group of researchers devise prediction models with the help of AI to turn rice husks into concrete. This serves as a replacement for the traditional cement.

A new solution from Cambridge University could recycle both concrete and steel at the same time, by throwing old concrete into steel-recycling furnaces. If done using renewable energy, the process could make for completely carbon-zero cement.

The cement industry is one of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide and is responsible for some 8% of global emissions each year

African start-up Kubik makes building materials out of hard-to-recycle plastic for affordable housing projects.

Humic acid (HA) is a macromolecular organic substance that is widely used in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, chemical industry, building materials, medicine, environmental protection, and a number of other fields. However, the production of chemical HA in the market relies on non-renewable resources, such as peat, lignite, and coal, which require long periods to form. And the extracted HA yield depends on…

Scientists are now growing mycelium, the fungal root network, into fire-retardant sheets to provide a safer, nontoxic way to protect buildings

Architects are experimenting with a greener way to build.

Most people consider climate change to consist only of the warming of the atmosphere, the consequences of which primarily affect land regions. However, this is a human-centered view and does not go far enough.

Groundbreaking Cement-Free Concrete Made by C-Crete Technologies Gets Inaugural Pour in Seattle Building

Local Law 97 transforms allowable emissions by instituting a carbon cap; mass timber will reduce the City's environmental impact.

Allergy Standards Ltd. (ASL) announced today that its asthma & allergy friendly® certification standards for building materials have been approved by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED® Building Rating System, making it a qualified third-party certification for the LEED v4.1 low-emitting materials credit.

Plantd makes structural building panels for wall sheathing and subflooring, and they say their product outcompetes wood on every metric.

First National Bank and Trust appoints Hagen Harker to the Board of Directors

The cement and concrete sector accounts for around 8% of carbon emissions and this company is hoping to change that.

Reinforced concrete is, by a large margin, the most widely used building material on earth - by mass, we use as much reinforced concrete as every other material combined. One reason for this volume of use is concrete's versatility - because concrete is placed as a liquid, it can be used to form structures of virtually any size and shape. Placing concrete thus requires some way of forcing the liquid concrete into…

A Senegalese architecture firm is championing a lower-tech material than concrete to help cities prepare for climate change.