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 ...

[Photo: courtesy EcoCocon] Considering the ... The embodied carbon—or the amount of carbon emissions needed to produce the building materials used in the project—was 80% less for a straw ...

"There is great beauty and value in waste materials. It just takes the right processes and methods to find it." Pioneering ...

A: Although many building materials are correctly labeled as green or environmentally friendly, sustainable building materials are ecologically friendly both now and in the future. The most ...

As such, finding more sustainable building materials is vital to lessening our global carbon footprint. And to help achieve this goal, scientists are studying methods that might replace concrete ...

And, as it turns out, when naturally uprooted by wind, dried and used as a building material outside of the water, eelgrass continues to store carbon pollution and prevents it from entering the ...

Concrete is a crucial construction material. Unfortunately, however, producing it requires large amounts of energy—often powered by fossil fuels—and includes chemical reactions that release ...