Despite its huge environmental benefits, cob is an extremely niche construction material. As part of our Building with Cob ...

It's time for the construction industry to bring back cob, but innovation is needed to solidify the age-old material's place ...

New materials will not only be more environmentally friendly and enable new construction methods, but they will also influence the starting point and direction of design concepts, resulting in new ...

In addition to planetary geology and surface conditions, it takes energy to collect, process, and create the building materials needed for long-term habitation. You need a simple, cost-effective ...

CU Boulder researchers have developed a new approach to designing more sustainable buildings with help from some of the tiniest contractors out there.. In a study published today in the journal Matter ...

The Federal Highway Administration is giving states $1.9 billion to spur buying green road materials, while the EPA has a new emissions label for makers of road inputs.

This architectural and geological walking tour of downtown goes beyond the typical architectural focus to include the provenance and geology of the buildings' materials. These sedimentary, igneous ...