Arun K Tayal, a second year student of mechanical engineering at a city-based university, has been lauded for designing a brick by using construction waste, at a cost of just Rs 45.

This story first appeared in Maharashtra Times on December 21, 2018 A group of students at Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Shivaji engineering college created bricks out of solid plastic waste.

New Delhi: A group of civil engineering students have designed a method that can turn personal protective equipment (PPE) waste used in hospitals into bricks that are stronger without the use any ...

CU Boulder researchers have developed a new approach to designing more sustainable buildings with help from some of the tiniest contractors out there. "We already use biological materials in our ...

Arun K Tayal, a second year student of mechanical engineering at a city-based university, has been lauded for designing a brick by using construction waste, at a cost of just Rs 45.

As a construction material, bricks are not a good engineering product. Soils from different sources and burning processes cause heterogeneity in the product quality. Bricks make construction ...

The engineer on a massive project to rebuild the primary brick street through downtown Flint will pay to remove and re-lay tens of thousands of bricks after contractors used the wrong type of sand ...

No problem, though, because NASA is busy engineering space bugs that will turn the crap on the planet into building materials to help make the hostile planet habitable.