Floods are an inevitable part of life and the standard line of defense is the humble sandbag. While having applications in emergency relief, engineering and military environments, their design has ...

Q-I want to put down a walk made of bricks without using cement or mortar. Can I just set the bricks into the soil, or should I put down a bed of sand first? And if sand is okay, how much sand is ...

Assistant architecture professor Ginger Krieg Dosier recently unveiled a new breed of biologically “grown” bricks that are durable, sustainably manufactured, and easily produced from readily available ...

Scientists have succeeded in transforming desert sand into sustainable, eco-friendly bricks, offering a promising ...

Japanese construction and design firm TIS & Partners has just unveiled a strong and surprisingly low-tech brick that can be rapidly produced in disaster areas, and applied to the quick construction of ...

ROMA – His bricks are not made of cement or crushed stone. Not even water. It's just plastic waste and sand. Tšehla Kata, a former student of the National University of Lesotho (NUL), recycles plastic ...