Building houses from dirty diapers might sound far-fetched, but it"s a highly serious proposal from researchers who tried and tested the idea on a prototype house in Indonesia. Disposable diapers ...

Courtesy of Siswanti Zuraida, Bart Dewancker, and Romi Bramantyo Margono It was an idea born of equal parts inspiration and desperation. Indonesia, facing a steadily rising urban population and high ...

Finding low-cost, sustainable building materials is important for the environment and providing access to affordable housing. Researchers have created a composite building material by replacing sand ...

Casting bulky waste in reinforced concrete is an old fantasy, like in the movie Jo, Jean Girault's 1971 comedy, in which Louis de Funès removes the corpse of a man he believes is blackmailing him by ...

It was an idea born of equal parts inspiration and desperation. Indonesia, facing a steadily rising urban population and high building material costs, was falling farther into a deficit of affordable ...

Government building rules and regulations can be outdated and misguided, insisting upon conventional building materials with prices that aren’t compatible with building affordable housing. The ...

In the U.S., housing inventory is low. In underdeveloped countries, it can be prohibitively expensive to build. In all cases, green and sustainable methods are useful. Which is why researchers in ...