In 79 A.D., Roman author Pliny the Elder marveled at how dust could turn to stone. "Who, indeed," he wrote in Naturalis ...

The NES Vision Property developer has lamented the high cost of building materials in the market stressing that this probably accounts for the astronomic rise in house rents across the country.

It's time for the construction industry to bring back cob, but innovation is still needed, Cella collective tell Dezeen in this Building with Cob interview.

Dezeen's latest series investigates one of the world's oldest building materials – cob. Building with Cob will explore how this ancient, earth-based material is being reinvented for the modern age.

Dow increases layoffs to more than 2,000 as demand for building materials remains weak Chemicals and plastics company to close three plants in Europe to cut costs, in addition to the $1 billion in ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual element combining to become, for 40 years, the world's tallest building ...

In this episode, we complete the stone hearth using 1.5 bags of mortar, with all stones sourced from our land. We also install our first three windows and add cladding to the second gable end. # ...

The North-East Development Commission (NEDC) has donated building materials and emergency rescue equipment to 13 flood-affected Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Yobe to boost disaster preparedness ...

The late Liam Payne dances to One Direction's 'What Makes You Beautiful' with fans in a new clip from Netflix's Building the Band.

He said housing demand "continues to be persistently soft globally,:" leading to slower-than-normal seasonal demand for building and construction materials. Dow's stock sank 4.7% in afternoon trading.

It is the first building to implement a standardised approach to the use of material passports, in a strategy developed with engineering consultancy Waterman. The strategy of passporting will ...