Builders for Climate Action have found that embodied carbon accounted for an outsized portion of greenhouse gas emissions for new low-rise construction. A new white paper from the group says that the ...

Concrete is a stellar building material. It performs well against storms, termites, fire and the sands of time. But add insulation to it and concrete's list of benefits grows even longer. In both the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Nanotechnology and nanomaterials offer interesting new opportunities in the construction industry and architecture, for example through the development of very durable, long-lived ...

Working in a controlled environment also facilitates a higher level of craftsmanship. With advanced tools like automated ...

NUDURA ICF has demonstrated its versatility and sustainability in the building of this Gothic style church. St. Peter's Anglican Church in Tallahassee, Florida which was completed in June 2014 in only ...

When adding steel fibers the size of a clip, concrete is less prone to cracking, an engineer demonstrates. What the study shows is that this material has certain advantages over conventional ...

For decades, concrete walls and foundations were made the same way. Plywood or plain boards are built into forms that contain steel reinforcing bars (rebar) and into which wet concrete is poured. When ...

With mesmerizing precision, the digitally programmed mechanical “arm” of a 3-D printer can now squelch out layer upon layer ...

The designers mimicked the structures in certain bones to increase the surface area of the bridge, which also increased the special 3D printed material mixture’s ability to absorb carbon by an ...

In this video, learn how to build a round concrete "river" coffee table using conventional Quikrete concrete, rebar, and a ...

Voltaire wrote Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien, often translated as "The perfect is the enemy of the good;" he might well have been talking about residential construction. You run the gamut from the ...