What was our obsession with new? Nowadays, I’m aware that there are closets and drawers across America full of not just ...

A new study examines ways that carbon could be used as a key ingredient in building materials—particularly biomass plastics ...

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

If all new buildings used CO2-storing materials, a new paper says, 16.6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas could be stored ...

The Trump administration’s plans to slap new tariffs on imports from Canada and other countries could set off new waves of ...

Under UK law, the owner of a property that has been refurbished in a way that does not meet building regulations in place at ...

Many experts say luck does play a part. But they also say there are many ways that homes can be made less vulnerable to fire.

Cladding is a skin of insulating materials applied to the ... polyethylene core panels - like the ones used at Grenfell - on its Hanover Tower building. The council said in a 2020 report that ...

A federal judge in Texas ruled in a virtual hearing Dec. 27 that U.S.-Mexico border wall materials ... as 2020 because they could not legally be used for any other purpose.

LEGO Education, which has for decades created supplemental science, technology, engineering, and mathematics materials for ...