This New Building Material Doesn’t Emit Carbon – It Traps It

Researchers have developed a new carbon-negative building material that could reshape approaches to sustainable construction.
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Scientists make major discovery while working with old building materials: 'A significant challenge'

Look around. Chances are, you're surrounded by concrete. It's in our sidewalks, schools, and homes — it's literally the foundation of our world. We use more of it than anything else on Earth besides ...
Science Daily

Living fungus-based building material repairs itself for over a month

Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results show that this material -- which is manufactured with living cells at low ...

Disaster after disaster: Do we have enough raw materials to 'build back better?'

This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of ...
The Conversation

Building Zambian homes with local materials delivers benefits that imports don’t: study

Jeremy Gibberd receives funding from CSIR and the University of Wits currently. In the past he has received funding from UNEP, ILO and other organisations he has consulted for. People spend up to 90% ...