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Bricks produced using mycelium, yard waste and wood chips as a part of the myco-architecture project. Similar materials could be used to build habitats on the Moon or Mars

Healthy Home

Sustainable Housing: Growing Homes From Fungi

To create off-planet housing, a NASA project grows fungi’s root-like structure so that it fills lightweight inflatables. The idea can work on Earth, too

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Builders

To Target Older Home Buyers and Sellers, Consider Their Emotions

A recent survey by Opendoor reveals that home buyers and sellers ages 55 and over are emotionally attached to their current homes—but enthusiastic about purchasing their new ones

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Multifamily

An Innovative Financing Model for Affordable Housing

Maryland’s Montgomery County approved a $100 million fund to finance and speed the production of affordable housing

Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)

San Diego Tackles Housing Affordability by Incentivizing ADUs

The City of San Diego’s Ivory Prize-winning ADU Bonus Program allows the construction of one market-rate accessory dwelling unit (ADU) for every affordable-housing ADU

High-performance building envelope home with prefabricated panelized construction

Design

New Initiative Enables Builders to Reduce Embodied Carbon

Launched by the nonprofit RMI, HomebuildersCAN helps single-family and low-rise multifamily builders address an often-overlooked problem in home construction

Builders

Prefab Plus Infill: A Formula for Homes People Can Afford in Places They Want to Live

California-based Villa Homes aims to be 'the Toyota of housing: It works really well, it’s durable, and it’s high quality for the money,' says the CEO

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Healthy Home

Sustainable Housing: Growing Homes From Fungi

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To Target Older Home Buyers and Sellers, Consider Their Emotions

Multifamily

An Innovative Financing Model for Affordable Housing

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Healthy Home

Sustainable Housing: Growing Homes From Fungi

To create off-planet housing, a NASA project grows fungi’s root-like structure so that it fills lightweight inflatables. The idea can work on Earth, too

Design

New Initiative Enables Builders to Reduce Embodied Carbon

Launched by the nonprofit RMI, HomebuildersCAN helps single-family and low-rise multifamily builders address an often-overlooked problem in home construction

Modern, white, cube, elegant, minimalist style passive house with large panoramic windows, grey shutters in maintained garden

Healthy Home

The Passive House Network Publishes Guidance for 2024

The “Building Certifier Scope of Services” provides clarification on steps taken to certify a

Healthy Home

Concrete Wall Panels Help Build Noncombustible Homes

NileBuilt’s net-zero homes are built with concrete wall panels—creating fire, flood, and wind resilience

Healthy Home

Don’t Burn Straw—Build With It

Many farmers across the globe burn the straw that’s left over from their rice and wheat crops. A Swedish startup turns that agricultural castoff into building boards

Healthy Home

How AI and Mushrooms Helped Turn an Empty Urban Lot into Affordable Housing

In Oakland, Calif., a design team leveraged innovative methods and materials to build 316 affordable and sustainable homes

Technology

Builders

To Target Older Home Buyers and Sellers, Consider Their Emotions

A recent survey by Opendoor reveals that home buyers and sellers ages 55 and over are emotionally attached to their current homes—but enthusiastic about purchasing their new ones

Design

New Initiative Enables Builders to Reduce Embodied Carbon

Launched by the nonprofit RMI, HomebuildersCAN helps single-family and low-rise multifamily builders address an often-overlooked problem in home construction

Healthy Home

The Passive House Network Publishes Guidance for 2024

The “Building Certifier Scope of Services” provides clarification on steps taken to certify a

Building Science

A System that Takes Developers and Builders from Design to Completion

By requiring fewer workers and less time, New Orleans-based Shibusa Systems aims to make homebuil

Model of a smart eco-friendly house with solar panels

Technology

25 Innovative Solutions to the Housing Affordability Crisis

Ivory Innovations has announced the 25 finalists for the 2024 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordabili

Healthy Home

Concrete Wall Panels Help Build Noncombustible Homes

NileBuilt’s net-zero homes are built with concrete wall panels—creating fire, flood, and wind resilience

Technology

AI Resource Guide Released for Builders and Contractors

The AI resource guide provides builders with a base-level knowledge of artificial intelligence, and how it can be used to enhance their business

Healthy Home

Don’t Burn Straw—Build With It

Many farmers across the globe burn the straw that’s left over from their rice and wheat crops. A Swedish startup turns that agricultural castoff into building boards

Building Tech

A Homebuilding Factory that Comes to You

Instead of building large modular factories that ship out containers, Cuby Technologies’ transportable factories produce homes right near the construction sites

Many farmers across the globe burn the straw that’s left over from their rice and wheat crops. A Swedish startup turns that agricultural castoff into building boards

Sustainability

Startup Turns Concrete into a Carbon Capture Solution

Florida-based Carbon Limit has developed a product called CaptureCrete that pulls CO2 from the air, like a magnet

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