To wood or not to wood, that's been the question! Ever since oil-based plastics burst onto the manufacturing scene, cost, ...

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 ...

Bio-based building materials used to be mainstream. The roof of the Pentagon (which was built in the early 1940s) is insulated with horsehair. Until the mid-20th century, the great majority of ...

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 ...

The practice of upcycling –present in a variety of industries from fashion to construction– not only revitalizes discarded items, adding new values and functions, but also contributes to turning them ...

As explained in CW’s 2019 tour article, Holland Composites (Lelystad, Netherlands) has been developing composite solutions in architecture and construction for decades. The company’s first project, ...

A concerted effort to speed up development of bio-based packaging materials could soon make single-use plastics a thing of the past. Synthetic materials remain major contributors to global pollution ...

A look at how local resource use, material innovation, and autonomous construction are enabling practical habitat development ...

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 ...