In an ever-warming climate, compressed earth blocks technology is helping communities stay cooler in hot highland regions of ...

An innovative collaboration between the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture’s Sustainable Building Program and Cleveland County Habitat for Humanity celebrated a major milestone Saturday ...

Godfrey Riddle is about to see his vision rise up out of the earth: The first of 44 tiny houses, 600 square feet each, built to give more people a chance to become homeowners. It’s an idea as old as ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City business is working to make new housing more affordable and artful. Civic Saint plans to build homes out of compressed earth blocks (CEBs) to hopefully increase ...

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 ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...