No single building type or material will allow us to build our way out of our climate and decarbonization challenges. We need to reuse and renovate what we already have and when we do build new, we ...

Q. It has been suggested that timber bamboo be planted instead of oaks along Kirby Drive because it grows fast and the roots would not break the sidewalk. How much shade would you get? How much space ...

Before lumber and engineered wood products became a curse and a prayer, even before COVID-19 struck, a start-up prefab company out of Sonoma County, CA, anted-up some early funding round cash for an ...

Steel-reinforced concrete is the most common building material in the world, and developing countries use close to 90% of the cement and 80% of the steel consumed by the global construction sector.

When producer Lesley Chilcott accepted the Oscar in 2007 for best documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," it was perhaps fitting that she was wearing a dress made from bamboo. Yes, bamboo. "Bamboo is ...

The fascinating world of bamboo can be entered through any of several doors -- furniture, food or garden. And even when talking bamboo in the garden, the reason for planting it could be usefulness or ...