Local governments can cut costs, reduce emissions and build resilience by treating excavated soil as a resource.

Charles Burkhardt, founder of Santa Fe-based BuildSwift Modular, doesn’t claim to have invented emergency modular housing. But he thinks he has significantly improved it. Burkhardt’s company sells ...

A community campaign that began with one resident’s complaint to Choice Hotels has evolved into a broader effort to restore ...

A planning application has been approved to convert a storage pavilion in Swindon into a community and youth hub.

A newborn baby has been rescued from a fallen building 32 hours after the twin earthquakes that devastated a Venezuelan ...

Back-to-back quakes in northern Venezuela killed more than 1,400 people and set off an agonizing search for survivors. It was the latest ordeal for a country rocked by economic and political turmoil.

A missing child. A boyfriend in the rubble. Venezuelans in this hard-hit city said they needed more help to rescue the ...

When Kenyan tech entrepreneur Paul Akwabi visited a juvenile prison on the outskirts of Mombasa, he didn’t see young ...

Recycled plastic bricks are revolutionizing quick-build homes. See how this modular construction technique cuts costs and ...

The trick can slash the cost of a stepping-stone style path, because a 12-inch round paver bought ready-made is roughly three ...

Twenty-seven people have been made homeless as a result of the unrest, which broke out following protests over a knife attack that left a man seriously injured ...

The ⁠death toll in the twin earthquakes which rocked ‌Venezuela ⁠earlier this week has risen to 1,430, senior politician ...