Humans have been using the sun’s energy for millennia, but only now can industries like construction fully embrace the world’s most readily available, renewable and sustainable source of energy.
Southeast Asia is at risk of extreme weather events due to climate change. A partnership between Australia, South Korea, Japan and Singapore will leverage Australia’s wind and solar capacity through the construction of two major renewable energy projects.
The UK has a new prime minister who wants to shake up housing delivery by building more on green belt land. But this would be fiercely contested; is the answer to build more homes on brownfield sites?
Are construction workers ready to trade in gas-powered rigs for electric versions?
Arcadia hopes creating a more accessible solar energy ecosystem will help construction reach its long-term sustainability goals
The property developer and builder aims to achieve net zero emissions by 2025 and absolute zero by 2040. Here’s what its head of sustainability says other firms can do to reach aggressive targets
Thanks to Brexit and the covid pandemic-related supply chain issues the cost of building materials – everything from bricks to timber and steel – soared during 2020 and 2021. Just as this situation began to ease, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine piled yet more cost pressures on a number of key products. How can the industry mitigate these and meet the demand for new homes, infrastructure schemes and other projects?
With pressure building for the construction sector to address its carbon emissions as part of the battle to reverse the impact of climate change, designers and others are coming up with innovative ways “to do their bit” using materials like timber.
In an era of high costs and limited materials, construction firms aim to make greener building more cost-effective with inventive products and methods
To determine how to lessen the climate impact in the short and long term, researchers in Sweden took a comprehensive look at a highway project and its associated supply chains
Mass timber gives an age-old material compelling new advantages for the construction industry
Stadium design concept by Urbis Brisbane, Queensland, was chosen as the host city of the 2032 Olympics, an undertaking that promises a raft of new construction in the decade ahead. Brisbane will be the smallest city by population to host the Olympics since 1952, but its new and existing venues will rival the largest hosts.…
Companies have discovered that when waste plastic is reprocessed, it makes a great ingredient for roads, creating stretches of highway that are more robust and long-lasting than those made using traditional materials
Here’s why the construction industry needs to examine waste management practices across the entire lifecycle of materials
The U.K. government wants net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. But can the country’s construction industry—which currently produces a whopping 40% of those emissions—overhaul the way it works to help achieve this?
