Waste from the city of Ghent, Belgium, is being turned into the building blocks of a major cultural institution. For a renovation and expansion of the Design Museum Gent, an innovative new recycling ...

Construction is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, so finding new materials and methods is a crucial goal. Researchers at Flinders University have now developed a new type of ...

[CAIRO] Algerian and Malaysian researchers have designed cheap eco-friendly bricks that can be made from waste materials. Population growth in many urban areas of the developing world is outstripping ...

What? There is no such analysis in building insurance. You might see a single family analysis that asks if it is “brick” vs siding house, but that is a sad relic of past insurance UW policies and is ...

There are several symbols that transcend language barriers and are easily recognized and understood by people from different cultures. Examples include the male and female bathroom icons, the cross ...

Firing bricks and making mortar and cement is very costly, but organic chemists at Flinders University are working on more sustainable alternatives – focusing on building materials made from waste ...

This museum’s new facade is built from bricks made of city waste A new recipe uses old bits of concrete and glass to make a low-carbon building materials.

Recycling isn’t the end-all solution to our over-consumption of the planet’s resources, and the process comes with its own challenges and drawbacks, but generally, re-using discarded materials and ...

Bricks are an essential construction material used extensively around the world. Each year, nearly 1500 billion bricks are produced globally. However, according to the PWC report, Melbourne is facing ...

Karthikeyan Kandan receives funding from The Academy of Medical Sciences and Royal Academy of Engineering. In fact only 21% of all the plastic ever produced has been recycled or incinerated. So ...

I believe Australia where the paper was written, like the US, uses single stream recycling where paper goes in the same bin as glass. This commingled recycling is terrible for glass recycling because ...