The concrete breakwaters designed to protect people from the consequences of global warming also contribute to it. It’s time to start using different materials. Japanese authorities, wanting to better ...
Imaging living in a home where the actual walls have the capacity to store energy and run all the electrical devices and ...
Imagine you've just gotten to Mars as part of the first contingent of settlers. Your first challenge: build a long-term ...
Sustained space exploration will require infrastructure that doesn’t currently exist: buildings, housing, rocket landing pads. So, where do you turn for construction materials when they are too big to ...
Rising demand for housing in most major cities around the world is increasingly at odds with efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, as the literal building blocks—concrete and cement—of the ...
More than perhaps any other material, cement is the glue that holds the globalized world together—especially our cities. But producing it requires huge amounts of fossil fuels, and the industry is ...
INCREASING, THEY’RE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO SAVE. WHETHER IT’S COVID OR TARIFFS, CERTAINLY THE COST OF BUILDING SUPPLIES IS GOING UP AND I DON’T SEE IT COMING BACK DOWN. STARTING IN SEPTEMBER WHEN THEY ...
The historic structure on the intersection of Third Street and Third Avenue in Gowanus, Brooklyn sticks out like a “stone” thumb. The Coignet Stone Company Building, newly on sale for $2.99 million, ...