Building homes and commercial structures for an era of deadlier storms requires a multi-pronged approach including the use of new and more fortified building materials.

Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2015. Read the original here. Imagine living in the far future, able to look back in time and watch when Roman engineers came up with the arch ...

Architect Jorge Fortan cements his case for a concrete and foam sandwich house. This TreeHugger has never been fond of concrete, preferring straw and sticks as building materials for houses, but then ...

Two months ago, the foundation was poured for CUBE, a 2,200-sf, two-story building on the premises of Technical University Dresden in Germany, that claims to be the world’s first building made ...

After having radically transformed many sectors like automotive and aeronautics, digitisation and 3D printing has set sights on revolutionising construction. Today, regulations prohibit building with ...

Despite being ubiquitous in countries around the world, particularly in Europe and South America, concrete homes are still fairly rare in the United States when compared to the hegemony of wood.

Rendering of CUBE building at TU Dresden and Hitexbau carbon fiber grid. Source | © Iurii Vakaliuk, HENN, TU Dresden and Hitexbau. Technical University Dresden in ...

Civil engineers using a specialized laboratory at Purdue University have demonstrated the effectiveness of a simple, inexpensive method to strengthen buildings that have a flaw making them dangerously ...

Architect Keiji Ashizawa saw the planning process as "solving a puzzle" when creating this house in central Tokyo, which ...