Testing showed five rooms in Poe Hall at NC State University contained materials with high levels of PCBs, a likely carcinogen. Credit: Photo by Lisa Sorg for NC Newsline This story originally ...

Carbon-dioxide emissions from building construction and operations hit an all-time high in 2021, according to the most recent data compiled by the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction.

In my August 2021 column, I introduced the composites building block approach as a step-by-step series of mechanical tests of increasing complexity, coupled with analyses performed at each step, that ...