Our built environment — from houses to offices, schools and shops — is not environmentally benign. Buildings and the construction industry are, in fact, the world’s biggest consumer of raw materials ...

The Finnish biomaterials giant says shifting to wood as a building material can cut up to 70% of emissions per project and ensure that the construction industry is part of the solution to end global ...

Sylvie Geisendorf is a member of the European consortium R2Pi (The Route to Circular Economy) funded under the European programme Horizon 2020 grant agreement No.730378. Paul Wolf is a member of the ...

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 ...

If someone asked you how your marriage was and you said “sustainable,” would you be proud of that answer? A sustainable relationship to a building, community and planet should be the floor, not the ...

There are two main reasons why boat windows are round. They are easier to seal and, above all, more resistant to the high pressure that water exerts on them. This is because living corners are places ...

These buildings at the site of Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey are more than 11,000 years old, making them some of the world’s earliest monumental structures. The settlement includes circular ...

In recent years the fashion industry has been widely criticized for unsustainable business practices. But it may be on the cusp of a revolution in how it sources materials based on reuse rather than ...