A team of American researchers has developed a new kind of biological concrete that could redefine what we mean by "green buildings." The concrete, developed by researchers at the University of ...

Japanese construction and design firm TIS & Partners has just unveiled a strong and surprisingly low-tech brick that can be rapidly produced in disaster areas, and applied to the quick construction of ...

Q-I want to put down a walk made of bricks without using cement or mortar. Can I just set the bricks into the soil, or should I put down a bed of sand first? And if sand is okay, how much sand is ...

Environmentally friendly 'living concrete' has been developed by scientists mixing sand, gel and bacteria to create a building material as strong as cement. The new material contains a form of ...

Our built world is full of dirty secrets. So many of the things we imagine to have little impact on our environment turn out to be remarkably unsustainable. Concrete, bricks, asphalt—we encounter ...