Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new building system made from cardboard, soil, and water slashes carbon emissions and reimagines how sustainable construction ...

Engineers in Australia have developed a new building material with about one quarter of concrete’s carbon footprint, while reducing waste going to landfill. This innovative material, called ...

Rammed earth buildings have been around for thousands of years. Now, they’re having a modern moment. under your feet, and it doesn’t come with all the carbon baggage that other [building] materials ...

Imagine you arrive at a hillside retreat in the Pacific Northwest right when the evening fog starts to move in. You touch the walls and they’re cool. The colors ...

Rammed earth is often celebrated as a low-carbon method of constructing buildings, but some experts are beginning to cast doubt on its sustainability credentials. Amy Peacock reports. "People are ...

Radwa Rostom, founder and CEO of Hand Over Projects, launched her Cairo-based firm in 2016 with the mission of finding a balance between environmentally and socially responsible construction. They ...

Imagine you are standing in front of a multimillion-pound building in the centre of the French city, Lyon. It radiates warmth and history with its rammed earth structural walls. Two hundred miles away ...

Australia’s construction sector may be on the brink of a quiet revolution, one built from soil, water, and something most people throw away. Engineers at RMIT University have developed a new building ...

under your feet, and it doesn’t come with all the carbon baggage that other [building] materials come with,” says studio founder Jonathan Tuckey. As a building technique, rammed earth—which combines ...