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 ...

Building houses in Kenya is increasingly becoming a costly affair as obscenely high prices of land and construction materials prevent many from realising their dream of owning a home. This saw 56-year ...

It may be called The Boring Company, but Elon Musk's infrastructure plans and unique products are anything but "boring." The tunnel-building firm's founder just introduced new merchandise: lifesize ...

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 ...

Elon Musk may be more famous for building electric cars (and solar roof panels) at Tesla or launching one of those electric cars into space with SpaceX, but his other company is about to come out with ...

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 ...

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 ...

After saving money to buy land, for most people, the next huddle is finding the money to buy building material, starting with bricks and cement. Interestingly, there is a cheaper and more ...

As the world struggles to reduce plastic consumption, a Cambodian social entrepreneur is working hard to upgrade his methods of turning plastic waste into ecological construction material. Eco-Bricks ...

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 ...