Hempcrete is made from hemp hurd, which does not contain CBD or THC, and is from the inside wood-like core of the “fiber ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have made recycled plastic into floor trusses for housing, arguing the waste stream could provide an ...

For the next nine months, caretakers inside the Canada Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale will tend to something unusual: the walls themselves. The installation, called Picoplanktonics, ...

Researchers are transforming recycled cardboard into a strong, low-carbon building material that could reshape future construction practices.

François Leite reimagines an old stone house in the French countryside.

University of Texas at Dallas researchers and their collaborators have developed and patented a wood-based material that can store and discharge heat to help make building temperatures more ...

A new building material developed by engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute could change how the world builds. Made using an enzyme that turns carbon dioxide into solid minerals, the material ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Residential building material prices continued to experience elevated growth, according to the latest Producer Price Index release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Price growth ...

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Engineers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a new building material made entirely from cardboard, water and soil. Named carboard-confined ...