The building industry has a waste problem. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a British nonprofit focused on accelerating the transition to a circular economy, upward of 50 percent of ...

Engineers developed a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed, recycled glass. The bricks could be reused many times over in building facades and internal walls. What if construction ...

How does the building industry align around radical, pragmatic decarbonization? Along with addressing climate pollution from energy use, we also must address the climate pollution that comes from ...

Imagine all the items you’ve bought, used and discarded in your lifetime. How much space would they take up? What about the items discarded by your neighbors, friends and family? From cars to toys to ...

From concrete to aluminum to lithium-ion batteries, new strategies are helping the construction industry cut waste, preserve material value, and rethink how buildings are designed, built, and reused.

José Manuel Cabrero receives funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Biodiversity Foundation of the Spanish Ministry for the ...

Hundreds of feet above the British capital’s Canary Wharf financial district, an office tower under construction grows taller as it draws materials from a source just blocks away. Concrete being ...