Green cement production is scaling up – and it could cut the carbon footprint of construction

3 weeks ago
Frank Came

Aside from water, concrete is the most-used material in the world, with about 14 billion cubic metres being used every…

New stormwater infrastructure is needed for Canadian cities

1 month ago

Flooding in Montréal, and other Canadian cities, is becoming a more frequent occurrence.

Ancient Rome had ways to counter the urban heat. What are history’s lessons for today

2 months ago

As intense heat breaks records around the world, a little-reported fact offers some hope for cooling down cities: Under even…

More cities are getting hit by multiple disasters, and that complicates everything from insurance to rebuilding

2 months ago

Climate change will bring new weather patterns that are beyond emergency managers’ current playbooks, which are filled with protocols honed…

To cut the carbon that goes into buildings, we need radical change

2 months ago

New research shows while we can greatly reduce embodied carbon in Australia, it will require radical changes in how we…