Building Green: Sustainable Construction Practices & Eco Materials

Foolish To Rebuild After A Wildfire Or Flood? It Depends…

In cases where fires or floods are likely to pass through again, it might be better to move on to a less risky spot.

Automated modular construction has become a popular way to build lots of homes efficiently and inexpensively, but is it really greener too?

By storing CO2 in concrete, bio-plastic & asphalt, we can transform buildings into carbon “sinks” to help us meet emissions reduction goals.

Plywood is cheaper, more durable & more flexible than solid wood, making it a useful for construction & furniture-making applications.

Buildings account for 39 percent of annual global carbon emissions — a quarter of these emissions are the result of embodied carbon.

We look at three housing materials that harm the environment — and three more sustainable alternatives to help you build/renovate greener.

Manufactured homes can be greener than traditional houses if they are designed and built that way — but this may be the exception.

Sustainable construction goes beyond building eco-friendly buildings; it takes sustainable practices throughout the entire process.

There’s a lot we can do day-to-day to mitigate climate change, but changing how we build buildings could have a much bigger impact overall.

Experts anticipate the green building market to be among the fastest-growing sectors worldwide in the coming years.