Italian startup Levante’s custom flexible or standardized semi-rigid solar panels combine the benefits of ReCarbon’s rCF and ...

The company’s new Trex Select decking was also selected by Green Builder editors as one of the 50 most “Sustainable Products ...

A research team led by GE Hitachi Nuclear has successfully tested an innovative new building block made of steel-concrete ...

Polywood's long-lasting outdoor furniture looks like wood but is made with recycled HDPE. The Polywood Acadia Sofa Set is durable and comfortable.

Integrating multiple contradictory properties into a single material is crucial for dynamic soft tissue defect repair but difficult. Here, the authors report a super-structured porous hydrogel ...

Why it matters: New composite materials offer the prospect of lasting a lot longer than their wood counterparts. What's a composite? Broadly, a composite different materials put together that make ...

Wood has historically been the material of choice for many homeowners, mainly because of its relatively low cost. But composite materials have been dropping in price, narrowing the gap with a ...

This week has seen the highest softwood lumber prices before or after the stratospheric spikes of the pandemic. Spot market prices reached $686.72 per thousand board-feet in intraday trading on ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on softwood lumber risk disrupting the supply chain for something nobody wants to be caught without: toilet paper.

Or a house with wooden windows? Probably not—unless you've heard of transparent wood. Made by modifying wood's natural structure, this material has been proposed as a sturdy, eco-friendly ...

Most modern structures are built to last 50 years or so, but ingenious ancient engineering has kept this watery city afloat for more than 1,600 years – using only wood. As any local knows ...

Or 4x4, in other words. The Solterra is your go-to car for comfort and stability on muddy hills Credit : Jeff Gilbert Granted, this isn’t a car for farmers.