The building industry has a waste problem. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a British nonprofit focused on accelerating the transition to a circular economy, upward of 50 percent of ...

Across the UK and Europe, tens of thousands of buildings are demolished each year, often long before their materials or structures reach the end of their useful lives. Architect Julie Winrow explains ...

From concrete to aluminum to lithium-ion batteries, new strategies are helping the construction industry cut waste, preserve material value, and rethink how buildings are designed, built, and reused.

Hundreds of feet above the British capital’s Canary Wharf financial district, an office tower under construction grows taller as it draws materials from a source just blocks away. Concrete being ...

Funding Led by DBL Partners Will Accelerate Fiber Global’s U.S. Manufacturing Expansion to Turn Abundant Global Waste Streams into High-Performance Products BROWNSBURG, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fiber ...

Imagine all the items you’ve bought, used and discarded in your lifetime. How much space would they take up? What about the items discarded by your neighbors, friends and family? From cars to toys to ...

The project will take in waste construction materials and process them for reuse, preventing waste and saving carbon. It aims ...

What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled ...

Mishing traditional bamboo house, Majuli . Photo by Rumi Borah. License Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Across India's varied geographies, from coastal backwaters to desert ...