Soil bricks are made of water, soil and mould, which are dried and later burnt. Clay bricks, on the other hand, can withstand harsh weather conditions like extreme sunshine or heavy rain.

Low-carbon bricks made from construction waste have been approved for use by the British Board of Agrément (BBA), a UK ...

Beyond the soil concerns, traditional burnt clay brick production in Bangladesh also affects air quality. In just the Dhaka region, brick kilns release 1.8 million tons of carbon dioxide ...

To sustain this bold initiative, there must be an L.I, or Cabinet Policy document that also enjoins MMDAs to use local building materials, such as burnt clay bricks and tiles, pozzolana cement ...

Midway along the mile and a half burnt-clay-brick road leading into the sugarcane plantation community where we once lived, the Georgetown to Rosignol railway tracks ran across the road.

The reason being, before this people could not understand how serious the government was about the switch from the environmentally harmful fire-burnt clay bricks. Last month, the ministry of ...

However, researchers said, bio-bricks are not as strong as burnt clay bricks and cannot be used directly to build load-bearing structures, but they can find use in low-cost housing in combination ...