A team of engineers in Australia has come up with a new recipe for a road construction material that draws on two huge sources of waste; discarded tires and building rubble. The blended material was ...

Matti Kuittinen’s 365-square-foot residence is a call to action to reduce the carbon footprint of home building.

Recycled and reused materials continue to grow as a more attractive alternative in the construction field. They are at most times a coveted sustainable substitute to conventional building materials, ...

The global demand for wood could grow by 54% between 2010 and 2050, according to a study by the World Resources Institute. While some building materials like steel get consistently recycled back into ...

<p>It was not Paul Hughes' lifelong dream to sell gently-used flooring and powder-blue toilets.</p> <p>But when the Fairfax man saw that local governments were not lining up to get into the recycling ...

The Columbia Solid Waste Utility is hosting a customer input open house about the construction of a new Material Recovery ...

Twenty-five hundred tons of concrete, 350 tons of steel and 9 tons of aluminum window frames will be left after a seven-story building in downtown Pittsburgh is taken down. But instead of ending up in ...