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 ...

AS intimated by the author in the preface, this book is intended: “ (a) to supply reliable and unbiased information to those firms and individuals who contemplate making or buying bricks and ...

Some 1.23 trillion bricks are made every year — so brick making has a bigger carbon footprint than the entire airline industry. Traditionally, bricks are made by hand after clay is heated at high ...

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 ...

An American architecture professor in Abu Dhabi has come up with a new generation of sustainable bricks — grown by bacteria using sand, calcium chloride, and pee. Rather than being fired in a kiln, ...

[CAIRO] Algerian and Malaysian researchers have designed cheap eco-friendly bricks that can be made from waste materials. Population growth in many urban areas of the developing world is outstripping ...

Europe has experienced a wind and solar boom over the past decades, with new renewable energy projects coming online. But the uptick in renewables has created a problem that few saw coming – sometimes ...