Waste from the city of Ghent, Belgium, is being turned into the building blocks of a major cultural institution. For a renovation and expansion of the Design Museum Gent, an innovative new recycling ...

The “K-Briq” generates less than 10 percent of the carbon emissions released during the manufacturing of regular bricks and is made from 90 percent construction waste materials. Gabriela Medero poses ...

Let’s play Spot The Difference, urban edition. You’re on West 47th Street in Hell’s Kitchen, a Manhattan neighborhood known for its industrial vibe. Like much of the area, the street is lined with ...

“A Brick for Venice” explores the potential of the natural and readily available waste sediment material for construction use. It is a low-carbon construction product so it can become readily ...

Scottish cleantech building materials company Kenoteq, a spinout from Heriot-Watt University, is set to transform the U.K. construction market as its revolutionary K-BRIQ achieves certification from ...

Firing bricks and making mortar and cement is very costly, but organic chemists at Flinders University are working on more sustainable alternatives – focusing on building materials made from waste ...

Bricks made of discarded glass and recycling-waste ash have been shown to insulate better than regular bricks, while also requiring less energy to produce. And of course, they additionally use ...

Plastic pollution is a worldwide problem. In Nairobi alone, about 500 metric tons of plastic waste are generated every single day. Only a fraction of this number is recycled. In true innovation ...