By the mid-21st century 6 billion of us will be living in urban environments. What will that mean for cities and the buildings in which humans live? If current trends reflect what lies in our mid-century future then we will continue to see urban intensification with cities ever reachi

In our last blog we described how used plastic bottles get recycled as building material in new housing projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central and South America. Using products we normally would throw away is one way of dealing with waste and garbage, one of our biggest challenges