Although we’re surrounded by millions of them every day, most of us don’t think about bricks too often. For thousands of years, the humble clay-fired brick hasn’t changed. The building blocks of ...

The market demand for construction materials is tremendous in developing countries due to a growing population. To tackle the disadvantages of hollow concrete blocks and burnt bricks Oskam , LEVS and ...

In a collaborative study on sustainable building materials, researchers from Spain’s University of Seville and Glasgow’s University of Strathclyde have created bricks that contain sheep’s wool and a ...

In 2019, Bangladesh set a target to end the use of traditional bricks and switch to concrete blocks in all government construction works by June 2025. Aimed at preventing the loss of farmland and the ...

Sir: Bricks are used for constructing buildings. There are over 1.3 trillion bricks manufactured each year worldwide. In Pakistan, clay bricks are manufactured by mining and baking clay moulded blocks ...

Making burnt clay bricks requires a huge amount of topsoil as well as fuel for burning the soil. Studies reveal that every year Bangladesh loses one percent of agricultural land of which 17.4 percent ...