Along with material for a massive bird blind, concrete can serve as the “future” of affordable housing construction, Pablo Moyano Fernández believes.

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Twenty years ago, Joan Pauly hadn't even heard about the built environment; that is, the artificial or modified structures that provide people with living, working, and recreational spaces, as defined ...

Priced out of much of Los Angeles, architect Lindsay Sheron and her husband Daniel bought a vacant hillside lot in Mount Washington and proceeded to design and build their own home. For inspiration, ...

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How much does it really cost to build a home? To better understand single-family home construction costs, ResiClub reached out to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) for the trade group’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa State University professor Pete Evans, left, and instructor Dan Oswald stand with an Erectorbot printer at Iowa Central ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Terri Williams is a journalist covering housing trends. The housing market is still tight, due to a perfect storm of factors, and ...

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