“The building materials industry has been the backbone of North American construction and innovation for generations, yet ...

This startup is betting with its tech platform, a new generation of workers can fix construction's labor crisis. Is ...

A new generation of apartments, factories, ... Used since the 19th century—typically as a rural, rustic building material—straw has been a DIY solution for affordable, ...

Companies building next-generation products and breakthrough technologies are often limited by the physical constraints of ...

In a nutshell Researchers discovered that the internal thread orientation of mushrooms, specifically hyphal filaments, can alter material strength without changing the material itself. Dimictic ...

The Center for Industrial Photonics (CIP) at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) has developed an additive manufacturing ...

It's the first sawmill on the East Coast for the company, which will create 125 jobs and produce sustainable Southern Yellow ...

Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants from water, release oxygen into a wound ...

Most new composite materials for residential construction are composites. The binder in these composites is some form of plastic, usually a high-density polyethylene, or HDPE .

Vessel Technologies, in collaboration with New York– and Los Angeles–based engineering firm Büro Ehring, has developed a flat-pack modular system that is being used across 13 mid-rise housing projects ...

Holcim completed the spin-off of Amrize, now an independent, publicly traded building solutions supplier serving North ...

Why We Need to Reuse Construction Materials Much is lost when homes are demolished in the name of speed. With careful disassembly, high-quality materials could be used to make something new.