Explore the top 15 building products for February 2026—from high-performance curtainwall systems and low-E glass to formaldehyde-free insulation and structural data center ...

Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology just invented a building material that could make construction projects stronger and more sustainable—and it’s based on the skeleton of an ...

A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. Rendering of a Lewisboro, N.Y. disaster-resilient home by ...

Seaweed may prove to be a revolutionary tool in constructing and weatherizing future homes. The natural material is antibacterial, moisture-absorbing, nontoxic, and resistant to fire, and it is now ...

This was the first decline in the rate of price growth since April of last year, according to analysis from the National Association of Home Builders.

Construction is on its way to becoming greener. New research describes a method of creating building material that is not only carbon-neutral — meaning it does not produce any carbon emissions — but ...

A group of Senate Democrats’ bill would automatically exempt a list of building materials from current and future tariffs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Residential building material prices continued to experience elevated growth, according to the latest Producer Price Index release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Price growth ...