USD Professor Daniel Lopez-Perez runs Polyhaus on the side and his mission is simple: “To advance production in the housing ...

The Los Angeles fire disaster and the many fires we regularly experience in South Africa are a powerful reminder of the need for fire-resistant building materials and methods across the housing ...

Investigators have found that a product called cellular concrete may be an environmentally friendly alternative to ...

Whenever Sema Genc enters a room, the first place she looks is the ceiling: would it hold up in an earthquake, or would she ...

D printed barracks measuring 5,700 sqft are complete at Fort Bliss, making them the largest 3D printed structures in the Western Hemisphere.

Extreme weather events and human-made crises are becoming more frequent, highlighting the need for resilience in the built ...

Within a decade, more than 5,000 residents lived in Malibu. Architects warned of the danger of building in the area, known to ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the first major sale of the year, Lionsgate has pre-emptively purchased the big concept earthquake short story ... brokering unpublished proof of concept short stories with star ...

Bioinspired materials are synthetic materials whose structure, properties or function mimic those of natural materials or living matter. Examples of bioinspired materials are light-harvesting ...

MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off Southern Leyte town on Thursday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported. The state ...

Natural building using less flammable materials ... One major question for builders is whether earthen materials are appropriate for earthquake country. Sasha Rabin, who advocates for and builds ...