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 ...

DIY houses are in vogue – and now, there’s a model for LEGO lovers. With relatively little effort, it is possible to build a house out of interlocking bricks, which are up to 10 times more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 construction ...

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 ...