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 ...
Interlocking brick looks good, but seems to be more trouble than it’s worth when used in sidewalks. To lessen the drabness of the urban streetscape, the city has for many years replaced concrete with ...
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 government pushes to make affordable housing a reality, a plan introduced 16 years ago to bring down the cost of construction lies neglected. The Government in 2003 introduced the interlocking ...
LEGO’s interlocking bricks are not only for creating your next colourful building display project on your living room floor. These popular, brilliantly coloured construction blocks that foster ...
It may be a "highly sophisticated interlocking brick system" for some Lego aficionados, but for many parents, the toys are a pain point. Pain from the money spent, with the price of the toys ranging ...
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 ...
Seashells are pretty tough cookies, and now researchers may know why: The mother of pearl that coats the inside of the shell is arranged in a brickwork structure that makes the shell both tough and ...