The contemporary architectural landscape is increasingly defined by a return to organic materials that offer both ...

As Earth’s climate continues to warm, researchers around the globe are exploring ways to capture CO 2 from the air and store it deep underground. The method transforms CO2 into valuable, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. Rendering of a Lewisboro, N.Y. disaster-resilient home by ...

Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology just invented a building material that could make construction projects stronger and more sustainable—and it’s based on the skeleton of an ...

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Among the many things we could do to reduce strain on the environment is find greener ways of constructing buildings. You see, cement production accounts for 8% of CO2 emissions worldwide – and a lot ...

A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...

Installed Building Products recently cautioned that near-term revenue, especially in its residential insulation business, is under pressure from bad weather and a slowdown in U.S. single-family ...

Lowe’s has agreed to buy Foundation Building Materials, a North American distributor of interior building products, from private-equity firms American Securities and Clayton Dubilier & Rice for about ...