We know that the linear way we build now – where materials make a one-way trip from the earth to landfill – is dangerously unsustainable. It assumes too many infinites:…

Chinese scientists working on the creation of a Moon base have sent fragments of brick into space to determine how they deal with its hostile environment, Space Daily reports. The…

Researchers from the University of Missouri’s College of Engineering have been given a $1.2m grant to develop environmental product declarations (EPDs) for asphalt made with ground rubber tires. Their goal…

Microsoft is building a data centre with some cross-laminated timber (CLT) as it tries to become carbon-negative by 2030. The demonstration project in northern Virginia will aim to use enough…

Iceland’s pavilion at next year’s Venice Bienniale is to showcase a “Lavaforming” exhibit. This will be designed by Arnhildur Pálmadóttir of S.AP architects, and will demonstrate how controlled lava flows…

Four executives and a corporation were sentenced last week in the US state of Georgia for participating in a long-running conspiracy to fix prices, rig bids and allocate jobs for…

The Biden-Harris administration this week unveiled a series of pledges made by some state and city governments along with cement manufacturers, construction firms, developers and tech companies to use lower-emission…

Austrian contractor Strabag and German–Swiss machinery-maker Liebherr have begun a project that will showcase the world’s first-ever hydrogen-powered wheel loaded. The work in Kanzelstein Quarry, in Gratkorn, Austria, will feature…

Plans have been announced to build a $186m concrete plant as part of the huge Neom development programme in Saudi Arabia’s northwestern Tabuk Province. Saudi building materials company Asas Al-Mohileb…

A team at MIT has published a research paper detailing its work on printing bricks made from recycled glass that can be interlocked like Lego pieces. The use of printing…

Ethiopia has doubled its cement-making capacity with a mega-factory in the Amhara region in the north of the country, Addis Insight reports. The $600m Lemi National Cement Factory will produce…

A team of Chinese researchers is exploring the feasibility of producing building materials on Mars by melting its soil. The possibility of “in-situ resource generation” is being investigated by scientists…

Dutch heavy lift specialist Mammoet has unveiled a crane with a capacity of 6,000 tonnes, which it describes as the world’s strongest land-based lifter. The SK6000 is electrically operated and…

Thousands of homes in Ireland are crumbling. In videos posted online, angry and despairing owners pull rotten concrete blocks from their walls and dash them to dust on the ground.…

The mould found on exterior and interior walls at the mass timber Gaia building at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is not caused by its timber, but is rather an…

Australia’s economic policy chief, Treasurer Jim Chalmers, has warned that falling iron ore prices linked to a major slowdown in China’s construction output could lead to a A$3bn hole in…

Mould is growing on the walls of Asia’s largest timber building – the six-storey Gaia building at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) – raising questions about the use of imported…

In response to thousands of homes crumbling in Ireland because of defective concrete blocks, the European Commission has launched an infringement procedure against the Irish government for allowing the sale…