Earth-based building materials have long offered a sustainable alternative to conventional construction, drawing on locally available resources such as clay, sand, and natural fibres. Contemporary ...

Integrity Block is made of half natural earth and half post-consumer recycled content, providing a greener alternative to traditional concrete masonry units. The blocks require 40% less energy to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Compacted soil used as a road foundation with heavy machinery in operation. - Roman023/Getty Images Concrete is the backbone for ...

Rammed earth is the descendant of ancient construction techniques like adobe or cob building. It can be used to build walls for many kinds of buildings, from houses to museums and even cemeteries. The ...

Australia’s construction sector may be on the brink of a quiet revolution, one built from soil, water, and something most people throw away. Engineers at RMIT University have developed a new building ...

Although it’s been around for millennia, rammed-earth construction— layers of granite and soil, compacted into solid walls—is making a surprising reappearance in multimillion dollar homes. Photo: ...

Nowadays, the understanding of our building culture and the application of local construction methods may seem like a distant and obsolete concept given the role of industrialization and globalization ...

It's a mud, mud, mud, mud, world in Vienna where BÜRO KLK gets heavy while renovating a Japanese restaurant. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia ...