Instead, we could simply reuse the bricks and building waste that has already been made and turn them into new bricks. This would also help with the fact that limestone is now an infinite resource.

Now the researchers have taken concrete from a demolished school building, ground it into a fine powder and then mixed it with CO2 from the air over a period of three months. This carbonated ...

The bricks are made from melted glass bottles layered in ... All this builds into our idea of a sustainable, circular ...

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 ...

Tribeca includes four buildings, with the 112,340ft2 ... all came from a region where earth blocks were very common. They found laying the bricks easy The mortar is made from the same clay as the ...

A Trombe wall is a passive solar building feature that enhances thermal efficiency. Positioned on the sun-facing side of a structure, it consists of a wall made from materials like brick ...

Brick buildings, perhaps? Iron gates, Corinthian columns, sweeping façades? You’d be right if you conjured any of the above images, but the campus isn’t just made out of bricks. In an ...

RBS showed that it was possible to build multi-storey buildings without cement and bricks, and pre-fabricated panels made of a mixture of gypsum and glass fibre were a viable substitute for load-b ...