Architects are designing wood buildings that ditch concrete and metal in favor of a more environmentally friendly material—one that could help fight climate change. Glue might the best thing to ...

"If you were to just use regular wood floor adhesive, the moisture that is naturally in the concrete will be absorbed by the wood, which can cause issues," says Thielk. Yes, but you'll need to ...

After two weeks of stress tests using the products on wood, concrete, and metal, the following picks earned our top honors.

Wood gets its rigidity from lignin, which are highly crosslinked organic polymers. In this case, lignin fills the gaps in the concrete and functions as an adhesive when mixed with waste concrete ...

Most widely used adhesives are toxic and derived from petroleum, but researchers have come up with a safe, recyclable ...

That's where a new study comes in, which indicates that discarded concrete becomes even stronger than it was before, when wood waste is ... into a highly-effective adhesive, binding the pieces ...

Wood waste is also sourced from sawdust ... allowing for the lignin to become an adhesive that fills the gaps between the concrete particles. What results is a newly formed concrete with stronger ...

The carbon footprint of timber construction is significantly lower than concrete construction ... However, wood panels still use adhesives made from fossil raw materials. They contain formaldehyde ...

Wood gets its rigidity from lignin, which are highly crosslinked organic polymers. In this case, lignin fills the gaps in the concrete and functions as an adhesive when mixed with waste concrete ...