Solar Innovations Solar energy has been around for quite some time, but recent innovations are making it more efficient and ...

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In Zambia, a project using local materials to build houses, instead of imported steel and concrete, resulted in benefits for ...

Cash flow is generated through timber harvesting and the sale of land that it determines has higher value than if it remained in its portfolio. Unlike some of its competitors, Rayonier is a pure-play ...

"At first glance, Scout appears as a collection of interconnected forms, its pitched roof rising from a bunker-like base of ...

Fletcher Building’s appointment of Peter Crowley as chairman can be taken as a signal that a company break-up or restructure ...

New Zealand Exchange-listed Fletcher Building director Peter Crowley has been announced as its new chair. In a notice to the ...

Dr Griffin Cherrill explains the changes necessary to make sure the new homes we’re building are warm, dry and healthy.

China is building a new military command centre near Beijing that is 10 times the size of the Pentagon, US intelligence officials have said. Satellite images of the base, about 20 miles south-west ...

Researchers at the University of Maine have managed to 3D print an organic building material with the strength of steel. The SM2ART Nfloor is printed as a single piece in about 30 hours, which is a ...

“Costs of steel, bricks and other building materials have gone up quite significantly,” he said at a press conference in conjunction with Henry Butcher Malaysia Perspective 2025 here yesterda ...

Natural building using less flammable materials ... combustible fences or fire-proof outbuildings. Loescher said that New Zealand, which is also a center for earthquakes, had adopted rules for ...