Our built environment — from houses to offices, schools and shops — is not environmentally benign. Buildings and the construction industry are, in fact, the world’s biggest consumer of raw materials ...

Sylvie Geisendorf is a member of the European consortium R2Pi (The Route to Circular Economy) funded under the European programme Horizon 2020 grant agreement No.730378. Paul Wolf is a member of the ...

The Finnish biomaterials giant says shifting to wood as a building material can cut up to 70% of emissions per project and ensure that the construction industry is part of the solution to end global ...

The building industry has a waste problem. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a British nonprofit focused on accelerating the transition to a circular economy, upward of 50 percent of ...

If someone asked you how your marriage was and you said “sustainable,” would you be proud of that answer? A sustainable relationship to a building, community and planet should be the floor, not the ...

Cities are complex ecologies of intersecting natural systems and urban infrastructure. Environmental degradation has brought attention to the asymbiotic relationship between man-made and natural ...

Our built environment—from houses to offices, schools and shops—is not environmentally benign. Buildings and the construction industry are, in fact, the world’s biggest consumer of raw materials and ...