A third of American homes, or about 48 million properties, are at risk of wildfires. Here's how to protect yours.

EarthWorks by MIT uses treated mud for concrete formwork, promoting efficient, low-cost construction and significant ...

Los Angeles’s Palisades and Eaton fires earlier this month, with their structure losses totaling 6,380 and 9,418, ...

Buildings cost a lot these days. But when concrete buildings are being constructed, there's another material that can make ...

As California rebuilds from the wildfires, homeowners appear to be looking at alternative ways to build a home, and they are ...

Researchers in the Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering are working to develop the materials necessary to 3D print concrete structures. Traditional construction ...

Concrete cracking is aesthetically unpleasing and can lead to structural defects. A new modelling tool is designed to address this. Concrete durability issues such as delayed ettringite formation make ...

As a Mario Kart superfan, I've spent the last hour poring over the gameplay footage frame by frame, and I've come away with a surprising amount of information. Nothing's set in stone until we get ...

As many as 12,000 homes, businesses and other structures may have been destroyed ... with more ember- and flame-resistant materials, like concrete and steel. Architect Greg Chasen believes a ...

Four of these compact units can be rapidly assembled within a wooden frame to create ... s distinctive geometric structure allows for reductions of up to 60 percent in concrete and 90 percent ...