“Superwood,” though, might be more than just a branding gimmick. More than a decade in the making, the product, which recently had its commercial launch, claims to be up to 10 times the ...

Superwood, which we looked at earlier this year prior to its launch, is the result of a lengthy mission by material scientist Liangbing Hu, co-founder of ...

A new type of wood, six times less in weight and ten times stronger than steel could reshape the future of construction.

A US company has engineered a new type of wood that it says has up to 10 times the strength-to-weight ratio of steel, while ...

Scientists are looking at ways to incorporate strengthened wood into new buildings to increase their sustainability. In Japan ...

Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction. But wood construction isn’t engineered for long-term durability, and it often underperforms, ...

The growth of the world's population has led to an increase in housing and building construction around the globe. Considering that today the construction industry is responsible for 40% of the planet ...

Global consulting and engineering company John Wood Group plc has won a multi-year enterprise framework agreement (EFA) to continue to provide services to Shell plc’s global projects. Under the ...

While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...