But that's how the majority of sand needed to make the world's most-used building material is harvested, and the reserves are ...

Explore the top 15 building products for February 2026—from high-performance curtainwall systems and low-E glass to formaldehyde-free insulation and structural data center ...

When mixed with minerals, corn waste can be used as a sturdy building material. A new 3D-printed construction technique turns corn into a novel building material.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the Q4 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the building materials industry, including Vulcan Materials (NYSE:VMC) and its peers. Traditionally, ...

University of Texas at Dallas researchers and their collaborators have developed and patented a wood-based material that can store and discharge heat to help make building temperatures more ...

Not many family businesses can say they have been around for 100 years, but Peninsula Building Materials (PBM) recently reached that milestone, celebrating its centennial anniversary this past spring.