Researcher Tavs Jorgensen has created a method of extruding cob into brick shapes, in an effort to make the low-carbon biomaterial more accessible. Used to create bricks that can be stacked in ...

It's time for the construction industry to bring back cob, but innovation is needed to solidify the age-old material's place back within our toolkits, design collective Cella tell Dezeen in this ...

Cob (an old English word for lump) is old-fashioned concrete, made out of a mixture of clay, sand and straw. Becky Bee’s The Cob Builders Handbook (Chelsea Green Publishing, 1998) is a friendly guide ...

The LED industry is ever moving towards more lumens/watt, lumens/$, lumens/area, better brightness, and improved color rendering index (CRI), sometimes called color rendition index. CRI is a ...

Creating decorative garden walls for your landscape is something many of us think about, but somehow, the details get in the way. What should I build it from? Can I build it myself? Will it cost a ...