MIT engineers turn plastic waste into strong building parts that could solve housing crisis and reduce environmental impact ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have made recycled plastic into floor trusses for housing, arguing the waste stream could provide an ...

In a major advancement for sustainable construction, scientists have created a cement-free soil solidifier from industrial waste. By combining Siding Cut Powder and activated by Earth Silica, an ...

University of Cape Town (UCT) MSc student Matimba Mabonda and his team have recently completed construction on a three-bedroom house, built using soil and other waste material.South Africa generates ...

A UCT student has developed an innovative housing solution using soil and waste materials, addressing South Africa's housing crisis while promoting sustainability.

The most affordable way to build a house is to aim for a tiny home and use materials that would otherwise go to the waste stream.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. From the heavy use of raw materials to logistics and ...

Insect shells, rice husks, water bottles, and bamboo charcoal might not be the first things that come to mind when you think of high-­ performance building products. But Taiwanese upcycling company ...

A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...

For many families living in informal settlements, building a home means working with whatever materials they can find. Plastic sheets, ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

How can unused home construction materials be recycled for additional use? This is what a recent study published in Journal of Cleaner Production hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated ...