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 ...

Most of us are already quite comfortable recycling our household waste. In Spain, for instance, millions of tonnes of packaging are processed every year, but did you know that buildings and their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Funding Led by DBL Partners Will Accelerate Fiber Global’s U.S. Manufacturing Expansion to Turn Abundant Global Waste Streams into High-Performance Products BROWNSBURG, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fiber ...

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.

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 ...