People spend up to 90% of their lives in buildings. How these are designed and built has a profound influence on our economies and how we live and work. Traditionally, buildings were constructed by ...
Workers at a construction site in West Pokot. A new building code now allows counties to use local materials to cut costs and boost climate resilience. Counties can now use local materials such as ...
Desi Training Center / Studio Anna Heringer. Image Courtesy of Studio Anna Heringer Three voices, three decades, three ways of confronting change. If art (here, through music) has historically served ...
Against the backdrop of increased cost of imported building materials, following fluctuations in the exchange rate, experts in the construction industry have called on the government to intervene in ...
Construction of Korase School wooden extension, Ghana- 2018. Image © Aulaterra E.V. Embodied carbon emissions are generated from the extraction, manufacturing ...
Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt process local clay as a key part of their ceramics practice in Bakersville, North Carolina. (Photo by Anya Petrone Slepyan / The Daily Yonder) [Series note: People have ...
Jeremy Gibberd receives funding from CSIR and the University of Wits currently. In the past he has received funding from UNEP, ILO and other organisations he has consulted for. People spend up to 90% ...