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

People spend up to 90% of their lives in buildings. How these are designed and built has a profound influence on our ...

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

"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 ...

Pristine, already-built properties are becoming increasingly sought after along the Gold Coast due to skyrocketing building material and labour costs and uncertainty around future projects.