Shaw’s Tim Conway recently spoke with the Lab's director, Alison Mears, about how it is raising awareness about building material ingredients and educating the next generation of designers and ...

Did you know that a bunch of major cities around the world all have super-cool material libraries? That's right – from New York to Paris, Shanghai to Sweden, there are physical spaces where designers ...

More builders and homeowners are looking for ways to reduce the environmental impact of residential construction, and a quickly-emerging way of doing so is by using upcycled materials. Instead of ...