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German steel giant Thyssenkrupp is investing US$1.9 billion in a hydrogen-powered direct-reduction system that can create high-quality steel without needing the rare, high-grade iron ore required by most green steel processes.
John Geary grew up watching his father build big homes in the San Francisco Bay Area where it can take years to permit a project, so when the state legislature began passing bills to make it much easier to build a home in your own backyard...
We could 3D-print tools on Mars made from the planet itself--and the exciting experiment could change the future of space travel, according to engineers.
We've heard how 3D-printed concrete buildings can be constructed quickly and easily, but could there be an even faster and simpler method?
This is the final in a series of videos showing this Arched A frame garden shed build.
There're 3D-printed homes, and there're prefabricated homes. Take the best of both technologies, throw in a groundbreaking use for discarded plastic, and you have a genius idea.
Scientists have figured out how to build living structures out of extruded soil.
Hiding transparent solar panels in plain sight could greatly boost the adoption of solar power.
Sleeping in a culvert generally means you've fallen on some hard times, but that's not the case with this unique new project by Nendo. Named the Culvert Guesthouse, it involved constructing a minimalist retreat from the precast concrete box culverts
The world is going to witness an extraordinary megacity NEMO in Saudi Arabia, with all the sustainable approach, though the feasibility is being questioned by scientists and economists.
Saudi Arabian authorities have revealed plans for an architecture project so ambitious that it almost beggars belief.
Can astronauts see the Great Wall of China? What about the pyramids?
More than 50 billion tons of sand are wasted every year in the world, making it the second most used resource after water. Sand is an unregulated material widely used in literally every building project on Earth.
One day last September, a curious email arrived in Chris Hables Gray's inbox. An author and self-described anarchist, feminist, and revolutionary, Gray fits right into Santa Cruz, Calif., where he lives.
About two years ago I wrote about a crowdfunding campaign to create affordable, green, modular, and community-centric housing: Geoship. Now that dream has manifested in an actual physical prototype, and the company has raised over $1.5 million, taken
For three millennia, builders in the Middle East (where temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius) have been cooling their homes by building wind catchers, or wind scoops, into their structures.
Ferrocrete - introduction, ferrocement, history, difference between rcc and ferrocrete, applications, advantages and disadvantages, construction methods, use of ferrocrete technology and other information.
The steel industry is testing new technologies that don't rely on fossil fuels.
An eight-story high-rise office building in Melbourne is going to be covered in over a thousand solar panels with the aim of providing all its own electricity.
The Earth's sea level is constantly increasing. A real flood may soon begin, because since 1880 the world's ocean waters have risen an average of eight to nine inches. And a third of that figure, according to Climate.Gov climate change research por
Renewable energy is intermittent, so energy storage and release will be critical in the next few decades.
Film producers Chris and Roberta Hanley (American Psycho, Virgin Suicides) dropped a tiny prefab onto their Joshua Tree land to use as their desert home, but the town told them that the 12-foot-wide trailer was too skinny, so the couple went bold and
The magnificent Hoover Dam which was constructed 80 years ago, still stands strong and serves the US in the fields of irrigation, flood control, and power production.
Cristina Manene and Fernando Orte wanted a home to escape the city, but that would still provide reminders of village life. Outside Madrid they found raw land embraced by the Tagus River where they built a home to resemble a Spanish village complete
On the valley floor beneath the dramatic sandstone cliffs of Bluff, Utah, emerging builders have spent over two decades erecting experimental homes with new materials like FlexCrete blocks: a Navajo Nation product created from the coal ash leftovers
With a notoriously large carbon footprint, concrete is a prime target for researchers developing greener materials for the future of construction.
This Geodesic Dome Home was Built by Hand for Only $18,000 back in the 80s
Exploring How This Plant Could Replace Concrete.
This video shows several fire tests with a propane torch for aircrete styrofoam with different densities and other available rigid foam insulation boards.
These 2 videos go into detail how I started experimenting with styro aircrete, how to build with it, and what the pro's and con's of using it are.
