3-D-printed architecture that manages to look nice despite the fact that it was extruded. Creating buildings is one of the next frontiers of 3-D printing that makers and architects are actively ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They’re like children’s building blocks, except these ones are designed to construct real houses. German start-up Polycare says ...

Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore, ...

Concrete has a giant carbon footprint yet concrete blocks are a ubiquitous building material used around the world. Watershed Materials has produced a new, beautiful and sustainable masonry block that ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I like LEGO blocks and I really like to see the creations that geeks get up to making when they have plenty of blocks at their disposal. The ...

A Napa company is working to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by making an alternate to the most common construction material on the planet: concrete. A Napa company is working to ...

Five years ago, Mahmoud Khalifeh was given a task — develop a material for well plugging and abandonment that would outperform cement while retaining some of that material’s important characteristics.

Cement has been used for thousands of years, but making the modern-day version generates huge amounts of greenhouse-gas emissions, further jeopardizing global climate goals. Now, innovators are racing ...