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Builders and architects turn to reclaimed materials and historic elements to build tradition into high-performance new homes and remodels.
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A new generation of products are featured at Surfaces 2010.
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Organizations say demand is up and supply down for products that can be reused and recycled.
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Need a hip, attractive, durable counter? There's a top for that.
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Even in a bad market, tile is still a good way to create value.
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Eleven new products for sustainable homes.
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What’s it take for a builder to go green? It starts with a desire to learn and a willingness to push the envelope.
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A sustainable house is the sum of its many, many parts.
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The Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction in Switzerland is soliciting entries through Feb. 29, 2008, for the annual Holcim Awards, a global program with a $2 million purse.
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Fifteen years ago, before the sustainable building groundswell began in earnest, environmentally friendly products had an organic (some might say earthy) look that only the sandal-wearing hippie fringe could appreciate. If you were looking for a refined finish, you looked elsewhere.
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America's landfills may be a little less, well, filled in the near future if innovators such as Frank Little keep making trips to the patent office. Little, the founder of Magnolia, Texas-based Tax Advantage Design, recently unveiled a demountable drywall tape system that provides an alternative...
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The word “used” has a bad connotation. No one wants used clothes or used shoes. Is it any wonder that automobile manufacturers have gotten hip to this and now use the term “pre-owned vehicles” instead of “used cars”?
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Once upon a time, power tools came with a cord and life was good. Then came cordless, and life got better. Today, as more manufacturers adopt and perfect lithium-ion battery technology, tool users can be downright giddy at the prospects.
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If you're old school, you probably like your music on vinyl, your cup of joe black, and your business luncheons at a steak joint with dark wood paneling. You're also likely to want your deck made out of wood. And who could blame you: Wood is attractive, inexpensive, and lasts a good 20...
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Do you have any idea what's in your dumpsters? You should. All of that debris is costing you money.
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ONE OF THE BIGGEST OBSTACLES to jobsite recycling has been finding the organizations that accept drywall, carpet, asphalt roof shingles, appliances, and other demolition byproducts. Now, by logging on to the Construction Waste Management Database Web site (www.wbdg.org/ccbref/cwm.php) you get a...
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The dismantling of the Orlando, Fla., Naval Training Center was one of the largest demolition projects in the country. A total of 4.5 million square feet was bulldozed, including 256 buildings, 200 miles of underground utilities, and 40 miles of asphalt roads. About 600,000 tons of clean concrete...
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With factories running 24 hours a day to meet demand, makers of plastic-based building materials such as decking, fencing, and siding are moving into the mainstream at warp speed. Are these products the answer to our durability woes, or merely a fresh face shaking up an old business?
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Before he bought the recycling machines from Mableton, Ga.-based Packer Industries, Artistic Homes rented 22 Dumpsters a week to fill with construction debris.