In a previous blog post, I discussed the Design Lifecyle as having three primary stages: Pre-Building, Building and Post-Building. I spent considerable time in the Pre-Building phase focused on the ...

Earth-based building materials have long offered a sustainable alternative to conventional construction, drawing on locally available resources such as clay, sand, and natural fibres. Contemporary ...

Discover the future of building with this deep dive into innovative construction methods designed to make projects faster, ...

Concrete is one of the most widely used construction materials, but its production is a significant source of carbon emissions due to the energy-intensive process of cement manufacturing. As the ...

As communities face increasingly severe climate-related disasters, a shift to performance-based building codes is one of the ...

Mimiro is an ancient Maori building technique that sees wooden supports fastened together using joints similar to tongue and ...

An alternative to standard concrete, rammed earth is a more sustainable construction method that's growing in popularity.

Build the new 90,000-square-foot, $35 million Silver Spring, Md., library with a 22 month construction time frame With a 22 month time frame, construction of the five-story building which will house ...

A new day has dawned for the American fire service. It did not happen instantly, but gradually. Over time, astute and aware fire service professionals have been monitoring the changes in building ...

What follows is a table with a (very) incomplete list of means of reducing material intensity in building. These means alone could reduce the impact of constructing buildings by about 75 percent or ...