For the AJ’s natural materials-themed issue, Rob Wilson and Fran Williams look at five projects currently on site or recently ...

Concrete, the world’s most-used building material, offers significant potential for carbon sequestration. Researchers are exploring “carbonated aggregates,” which are materials infused with ...

A family who left the Bay Area thinks that having an ADU greenhouse on their 140 acres will help them grow fruits and ...

DARPA wants space structures that are grown rather than built, and the building blocks for these new structures are living ...

Researchers have found a way to take waste concrete from demolition sites and turn it into fresh new concrete that has a strength not seen before from such a product. The breakthrough could lead to ...

Now, Northwestern's new strategy addresses this challenge by locking away CO 2 permanently and turning it into valuable materials, which can be used to manufacture concrete, cement, plaster and paint.

After all, that’s how the International Space Station was built decades ago – by hauling tons of prefabricated components from Earth. But that’s impractical for building habitats on other worlds.