An urgent breakthrough in bio-based building materials is needed if the Netherlands is to hit the target of carbon-neutral construction by 2050. Fortunately, there is huge potential in the country to ...

Woman-Owned, Colorado Startup Flora Materials Awarded Additional Funding to Fuel Research and Development of Organic, Non-Toxic Building Materials Made from Algae "The materials we use in construction ...

The building industry extracts, consumes, and ultimately discards more than 3 billion tons of raw material each year. Conventional building materials are globally sourced, carbon-intensive, often ...

What insulation materials are needed to meet the challenges facing the modern built environment, including how to create a more sustainable future? What if some of them are already available? Kingspan ...

Agriculture and the food industry seem to have little in common with architecture, but it is precisely the overlap of these three areas that interests Ghanaian-Filipino scientist and architect ...

Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that mycelium composites, biobased materials made from fungi and agricultural residues, can have a greater environmental impact than ...

As of 2021, the buildings and construction sector was responsible for more than a third (37%) of global CO 2 emissions, making it a significant contributor to climate change. To date, large-scale ...

Bio-based Materials Collaborative Research aims to understand the potential of bio-based materials and how they will change the kinds of construction materials and the architecture we make. The ...