Could buildings one day be made from materials that are as easy to take apart as LEGO bricks? A team of engineers at MIT believes so, and they are developing a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made ...

Although glass is known for being fully recyclable, the US Environmental Protection Agency states that only about one third of post-consumer glass actually gets recycled. A new glass-based building ...

Burlington entrepreneur Rob Conboy has high hopes for the object in the palm of his hand. The gray nugget he held on a recent afternoon looked like a stone but weighed no more than a sponge. The ...

Many in the glass industry are looking for sustainable solutions in order to maximize the energy-efficiency of facades while ...

Concrete is ubiquitous, so is glass. While there is a tendency to take everyday materials – and the way they are produced – for granted, a massive shift in how we use resources is underway. For ...

As architects embark on a transition toward more sustainable methods of construction, the industry is slowly phasing out the all-glass enclosures that have for many years defined commercial projects.

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

Building owners, developers and architects can now turn their glass buildings into magical, interactive video canvases, thanks to a recent partnership between ANC and GLAAM on a new LED glass building ...

When the recession hit the US eight years ago, the construction industry ground to a halt—and with it, the suppliers of building materials like glass. Now, boom-time architects and developers have a ...