For hurricane-prone coastal areas, you can't get more resilient than concrete homes, which can look as good as they perform.
Lack of qualified workers prompts building firms to increase pay and become more efficient.
The selections highlight the role of building science in green product innovations.
China will overtake the US as the world's largest construction market by 2018, and would be about four times larger than India's at the end of the next decade, according to a report by market analyst Global Construction Perspectives and Oxford Economics.
