Embodied carbon is responsible for 11% of global GHG emissions and 28% of global building sector emissions. Embodied carbon is the carbon emitted in the making of building products and construction.

The fine line between art and craft, creativity and functionality, personal expression and societal or industrial demands is one that architecture navigates with great care. This duality is ...

Among the many difficulties that the construction industry currently faces, confronting the climate emergency continues to be one of the main challenges. In fact, considering that the sector is ...

Researchers created a new sharkskin-inspired smart material that allows shifts in acoustic transmission on demand using magnets. As a result the new material can achieve multiple properties in one ...

Summer 2025 is shaping up to be the season of smarter, more expressive architecture—especially in public-facing interiors. As design priorities shift toward sustainability, health, and ...

The role of materials science in construction has traditionally been to provide new materials solutions to address problems identified by building physicists, structural engineers, architectural ...