Will your next house have walls of the same material used to make plastic coffee cups? Polystyrene foam, reinforced with concrete, is shaping up as one of the most-likely-to-succeed alternative mat… ...

There’s a 1,400-square-foot home on Juniper Place in Cortez that is being built with expanded polystyrene foam blocks. “It reminded me of a giant YETI cooler,” said Rachael Marchbanks ...

GRANDVILLE — Coming out of a block mold, huge chunks of expanded polystyrene all look pretty much the same as they stand 16 feet tall around Harbor Foam Inc.

VANCOUVER, Wash. — As the forklift lurched toward a nearby truck, its prongs began to slide between two foam blocks loaded on the trailer. An unmistakable squeak followed, like Styrofoam being ...

By using expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam, ... As the name suggests, House No. 12 features 98 foam blocks and eight different entryways. It also includes an open and flexible floor plan, ...