Construction

EPA Program Will Shape Selection of Construction Materials

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is setting up a program to rate construction materials by their climate impacts. Suppliers of materials with lower impacts – with reduced emissions of climate...

GFRP Tower Hit New Heights

A theory about the wireless transmission of energy, developed by inventor Nikola Tesla more than a century ago, helped pave the way for the recent construction of the world’s largest freestanding GFRP tower...

Apartments Built with Interlocking Composite Blocks

A 96-unit, four-building apartment complex in West Palm Beach, Fla., is going up in record time – approximately eight weeks per building – thanks to a patented mineral composite fiber reinforced (MCFR)...