A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...

Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology just invented a building material that could make construction projects stronger and more sustainable—and it’s based on the skeleton of an ...

Explore the top 12 building products for April 2026—from digital access control systems to acoustic ceiling solutions—curated ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. Rendering of a Lewisboro, N.Y. disaster-resilient home by ...

Construction is on its way to becoming greener. New research describes a method of creating building material that is not only carbon-neutral — meaning it does not produce any carbon emissions — but ...

Higher energy costs are raising building material prices. Producers use less coal than they once did, but compared to 2022, they have the same exposure to oil and gas. Price increases from the Middle ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Residential building material prices continued to experience elevated growth, according to the latest Producer Price Index release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Price growth ...

MycoTile grows mushroom roots to make affordable, eco-friendly panels. Fungi-based materials could help ease Nairobi’s housing shortage. Mycelium panels cost about one-third less than traditional ...

It's true that, in general, building materials haven't changed all that much in the last couple of centuries; it's really just that improvements have been made in how the different materials are ...