KOCHI: The primary dream of every human being is to build a dream home, but the rising prices of products is a hindrance. But there is a cost-effective way. By using interlocking cement bricks. “The ...

What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled ...

MIT engineers are aiming to make construction more sustainable by developing reusable bricks made from 3D-printed recycled glass. The approach follows the principles of “circular construction”, which ...

Engineers developed a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed, recycled glass. The bricks could be reused many times over in building facades and internal walls. What if construction ...

GEORGE TOWN: Penang has proposed using interlocking bricks, instead of cement or tiles, for new projects to reduce the heat.According to state environment committee chairman Phee Boon Poh, such bricks ...

Building a house in rural Kenya is relatively simple, assuming you have the desired materials. Unlike the urban side, rural Kenya has cheap and readily available raw materials. But if you think that ...

Managing Director of Reo-Habilis Construction Limited and the immediate past president of the Nigerian Institute of Building, Kunle Awobodu, tells DAMILOLA AINA on why compounds should not be fully ...

Before getting to the fun part of our interlocking-brick project — which of course is the spreading of the sand into the gaps separating the patio bricks — we need to clear out the weeds and sanded ...

Bricks are big business, and just like the Tudors did with their twisted chimneys and Victorian brewers did with their glazed bricks on pubs, having fun with them is hot. At tonight’s annual Brick ...