The recently concluded 2025 Indonesia Building Materials Exhibition (THE INDOBUILDTECH) served as a significant platform for ...

More architects are turning to wood to build their structures and make them more sustainable. In Sweden, a $110 million center was built as a proof of concept for this. Other architects in Sweden are ...

A material that’s been around since people built shelters—wood—is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings. As an economist who studies forestry and natural resources, I took an ...

Steel has long anchored modern construction, but its environmental toll is staggering: producing a single ton emits nearly two tons of CO 2. Steel is also complex to manage in construction processes, ...

Ready to turn some "trash" into treasure? Before finding salvage materials for your project, check your local builders' association and your state or provincial environmental agency for information on ...

Wood is an essential global resource. Used for construction, fuel, paper, furniture, textiles and more, it is renewable, versatile, strong and biodegradable. These benefits lead to the ever-growing ...

Mike Dyer, one of the owners of Western Wood Structures in Tualatin, Oregon, has over four decades of experience building with mass timber. As a former sales representative for a glulam manufacturer ...

A yellow crane hovers above a building site in Sickla, a former industrial neighbourhood that’s home to one of Stockholm’s biggest real estate projects. But instead of delivering concrete, it’s ...

Mathematics shows us how, from just a few elements, we can generate nearly infinite combinations and how each new arrangement can completely transform the original set. Theories like chaos and ...