*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. As you drive through rural areas of St. Clair, Jefferson and Franklin counties, farms, homes and small family-owned businesses ...

In a quiet corner of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, a construction project is drawing global attention—not for its size or cost, but for what it doesn’t contain: concrete. The Lib Earth House, developed ...

Amid a construction boom, Senegal's capital Dakar is a sea of concrete. But in the Ngor neighborhood, one building stands out from the uniform grey. Its red bricks are made from raw earth. But this ...

In the early 80s, I saw the Earth House Estate Lättenstrasse on TV for the first time. I'd always had a passion for architecture so I was fascinated by the whole concept: round homes, almost like ...

A worker carries a newly made brick at the Elementerre factory in Mbour DAKAR (Reuters) - Construction is booming in Dakar, where unfinished apartment blocks tower over most streets, their exposed ...

UMD Professor of Civil Engineering Andrea Schokker is researching ways to make concrete more sustainable. She is a structural engineer who focuses on concrete in buildings and bridges. Schokker says ...