Cashbuild’s share price rose more than 6 percent on the JSE after the retailer of building materials and associated products paid an...

Many developers have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. For instance, some had left their building materials on site, which were...

After decades of unsuccessful attempts to generate building layouts automatically, a spate of companies has suddenly proven it possible....

There is an upside to spending more time at home: researching your dream house, down to the cabinet handles. These days, many are...

With Eskom announcing it is implementing ‘load reduction’ for certain regions of the country, many individuals and small businesses will...

Research from the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science has revealed that discarded concrete can be strengthened with the...

Koichi Takada Architects has shared a first look of their latest work – a new mixed-use residential tower planned for the cultural...

Eskom’s Incline Block Tariff system means the best time to top up a prepaid electricity account is on the first of the month. This is...

With global temperatures on the rise and wildfires regularly breaking out in places such as California and Australia, the increasingly...

Fireplaces are built and specified to heat a certain space. When sizing up a fireplace it’s important to take into account the insulation...

Thanks to technology from ETH spin-off Neustark, concrete recycling plants can store carbon dioxide over the long term. The two young...

In the past, the construction industry has been slow to adopt new technology. That trend is starting to change now, with many...

Newtab-22 has used waste seashells salvaged from the seafood and aquaculture industries to develop a sustainable material that resembles...

Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) is comprised of layers of solid wood laminated together at right angles to each other, under pressure, in...

This new duplex sitting on a formerly vacant lot in Pittsburgh has just two floors. But if the owners ever need more space in the future,...

When building for a more sustainable world, the materials you choose undoubtedly play the biggest part in minimizing your project's...

If you’ve been using the old school method of hiding your door key in a fake rock or under a doormat, you might want to think twice....

The bricks are made using 52% of shredded PPE material, 45% paper sludge, and 3% binding agent-formulated gum base. “I added PPE made...

A new 77m² classroom is somewhat unusual, having been built using 8.2 tons of plastic litter – also known as eco-bricks. Before now,...

Red bricks - some of the world's cheapest and most familiar building materials - can be converted into energy storage units that can be...