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Circular and bio-based building materials are gaining ground. Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) are...

After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on Earth. With applications from housing and industry to coastal defence and infrastructure, concrete and cement are at the cornerstone of life, quite...

In its shift toward a circular economy, the construction industry will increasingly rely on the many sustainable qualities of bio-based materials.

Certain agricultural wastes, such as corn and sunflower stalks, have physical characteristics that can give building materials very satisfactory performance in terms of thermal insulation...

Toward Re-Entanglement: A Charter for the City and the Earth is a global call to action for the healthy and regenerative re-connection of human activity with the Earth’s natural systems. The history of human-kind has seen...

Forest scientists at Göttingen University develop plant-based, environmentally friendly material.

The construction sector can be turned from a carbon source into a carbon sink, if organic building materials are applied.

Europe’s buildings are ravenous for energy — representing about 40 percent of the bloc’s energy consumption and 36 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions. That has...

There is a growing awareness of the waste and pollution caused by the building industry. New biomaterials are being created using waste products and microbes to solve these ecological...