In the wake of devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, the urgency for homeowners and construction professionals to embrace fire-resistant building practices has reached a critical peak. Choosing ...

NAE Perspectives offer practitioners, scholars, and policy leaders a platform to comment on developments and issues relating to engineering. Naresh Thadhani is Jefferson Science Fellow, Bureau of ...

insights from industryMatthew GlasscottResearch Chemist, Environmental LaboratoryU.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center In this interview conducted at Pittcon 2023 in Philadelphia, ...

The idea of a straw building might bring to mind a medieval homestead, or perhaps the fairy-tale dwelling of The Three Little Pigs. Used since the 19th century—typically as a rural, rustic building ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have created a new carbon-negative building material that could transform sustainable construction. The breakthrough, published in the high-impact ...

Having places to live, work, shop, and otherwise conduct our daily lives is critical. But someone has to build those structures, and someone has to account for all the various aspects and needs of the ...

How do modern military structures survive extreme conditions? Discover the materials and engineering methods behind high-performance defence construction.

Quincy, Washington – Crushed rock and sand banged around in the swirling drum of a concrete mixer truck here on a construction contractor’s lot adjacent to a Microsoft datacenter. The scene on this ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Walk through a new build or renovation right now and you’ll hear the same language come up again and again. Warm.

A single-family home in Hazelwood is serving as a testing ground for a renovation project exploring how recycled building ...