Bio-based building materials used to be mainstream. The roof of the Pentagon (which was built in the early 1940s) is insulated with horsehair. Until the mid-20th century, the great majority of ...

The building industry extracts, consumes, and ultimately discards more than 3 billion tons of raw material each year. Conventional building materials are globally sourced, carbon-intensive, often ...

Holland Composites and its Duplicor®, virtually non-flammable resin were used to add 2 extra storeys to an ABN Amro office building in Amsterdam. The office of ABN Amro Bank, located on the ...

What insulation materials are needed to meet the challenges facing the modern built environment, including how to create a more sustainable future? What if some of them are already available? Kingspan ...

Europe and North America are driving expansion of bio-based polymer and bio-based building block capacity while Asia remains ...

A new report titled ‘Bio-based Building Blocks and Polymers – Global Capacities, Production and Trends 2025–2030’ has been compiled by nova-Institute. The report forecasts that the expansion of the ...

As explained in CW’s 2019 tour article, Holland Composites (Lelystad, Netherlands) has been developing composite solutions in architecture and construction for decades. The company’s first project, ...

Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that mycelium composites, biobased materials made from fungi and agricultural residues, can have a greater environmental impact than ...

Mexico-based design practice MANUFACTURA has developed a bio-based construction material called CORNCRETL, combining limestone aggregates, dried corn residues, and recycled nejayote — the calcium-rich ...

Agriculture and the food industry seem to have little in common with architecture, but it is precisely the overlap of these three areas that interests Ghanaian-Filipino scientist and architect ...

Bio-based Materials Collaborative Research aims to understand the potential of bio-based materials and how they will change the kinds of construction materials and the architecture we make. The ...