Privacy, safety, security—these are only a few of the reasons that homeowners build solid, durable garden walls. Although it's immensely satisfying to construct one ...

New research suggests constructing a simple building from interlocking subunits should be mechanically feasible and have a ...

Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore, ...

MIT researchers have unveiled a robotic assembly method using modular 'voxel' building blocks that could reduce embodied ...

Today, Uganda’s growing population attracts the need for not just housing units but affordable and decent structures or house units. With new cost friendly innovations in building, the populations are ...

Kolkata: The civic body has decided to lay interlocking concrete blocks on stretches of roads that frequently develop craters during monsoon. To start with, stretches of CR Avenue and Amherst Street ...

Stretches of two roads — one near Howrah bridge and another near Science City — that used to get damaged frequently despite repeated repairs are now being relaid with interlocking concrete blocks to ...