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 ...

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 ...

Youth from three villages in Mbeere North sub-county, Embu County benefit from joining hands in making interlocking blocks, which are environmental friendly. (Joseph Muchiri, Standard) When in 2005 16 ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Little children play with building blocks to make houses according to their own designs. Now, the Kerala State Nirmithi Kendra is on an ambitious task of using the same technology ...

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 ...