A house made from recycled-plastic blocks turns construction into a quick 5-day assembly, and that could change how cheap homes are built

Recycled plastic bricks are revolutionizing quick-build homes. See how this modular construction technique cuts costs and ...

Recycled-plastic blocks can snap into a small house in five days, as construction starts to look like a puzzle

See how recycled plastic bricks are revolutionizing homebuilding, turning waste into affordable, snap-together housing in just five days.
New York Post

Why naturally renewing ‘mass timber’ is the building block of the future

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Today, creative design using wooden materials is no longer just for kids. Across the globe, wood-framed architecture is ...
New Atlas

New greener building bricks made from demolished school and CO2

Back in 2021, researchers came up with a recipe for greener concrete that had building waste and CO2 among its ingredients. Now the same team has used rubble from a demolished school and the ...
The Business Journals

Rebuilding for resilience: Building back better with concrete block

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In the aftermath of the devastating wildfires sweeping ...
New Atlas

Algae-based blocks could make for a more sustainable building

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, ...
CompositesWorld

Composites testing as part of a building block approach, Part 1: Coupon-level testing

Fig. 1. Building block approach for composite structures. Photo Credit: Dan Adams Within the context of composites testing, a building block approach is a step-by-step series of mechanical tests of ...