A team of American researchers has developed a new kind of biological concrete that could redefine what we mean by "green buildings." The concrete, developed by researchers at the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Environmentally friendly 'living concrete' has been developed by scientists mixing sand, gel and bacteria to create a building material as strong as cement. The new material contains a form of ...

A Kenyan woman is harnessing her country’s mounds of plastic waste to create both new jobs and bricks that are stronger than concrete. Close-up of the sturdy recycled bricks being produced by Kenyan ...

A team of engineering students has devised a method to convert hospital personal protective equipment (PPE) waste, which typically swells up landfills, into bricks that are stronger and do not use any ...

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 ...