Transforming building materials into carbon sinks could sequester 16.6 billion tons of CO2 annually, driving sustainable ...

Mining the Atmosphere, a new Empa research initiative, aims at capturing excess CO₂ from the atmosphere and storing it in ...

"The next steps will be to make the manufacturing process faster, more efficient, and cost-effective." Researchers design ...

Safety experts have long been concerned about the physical hazards of construction work. Only in recent years have the ...

If you're looking to be more eco-friendly, why not use recycled building materials when you embark on your next bathroom ...

Some construction leaders expect projects to take longer and cost more. But others said if employers were following the law, effects would be minimal.

Some developers and contractors are taking a wait-and-see approach, while others are scrambling to prepare for taxes that ...

Improving cash flow in construction requires some sector-specific strategies from spreading out costs to comparison shopping for materials and financing them.

Stockholm Wood City is swapping polluting steel and concrete for a more climate-friendly construction material: timber.

Bioinspired materials are synthetic materials whose structure, properties or function mimic those of natural materials or living matter. Examples of bioinspired materials are light-harvesting ...

Biomedical materials are biomaterials that are manufactured or processed to be suitable for use as medical devices (or components thereof) and that are usually intended to be in long-term contact ...