Vermeer Corporation has always taken pride in finding a better way, and a recent product introduction has the potential to help address the critical world housing shortage. Vermeer Corporation has ...

In an ever-warming climate, compressed earth blocks technology is helping communities stay cooler in hot highland regions of ...

Becky Cavanaugh and Randy Seybold’s house near Dripping Springs took three years to build, but their patience is paying off in their electric bills. With some tinkering, they expect their ...

Back when Texas was still Tejas, dirt was a common material for home construction in San Antonio. That was before a new wave of European immigrants in the 19th century changed the trend from adobe ...

One of the things you can experience at the Home and Garden show is a home-made from "mud." The Cleveland County Habitat for Humanity and OU College of Architecture are building a house made of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City business is working to make new housing more affordable and artful. Civic Saint plans to build homes out of compressed earth blocks (CEBs) to hopefully increase ...

An innovative collaboration between the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture’s Sustainable Building Program and Cleveland County Habitat for Humanity celebrated a major milestone Saturday ...

An earth block, left, sits unsinged next to a burning block of wood after both were blasted by a 3,400 F blowtorch. UC Davis Professor Michele Barbato and team are investigating the wildfire-resilient ...

Most people enjoy building structures, wonderful buildings, and vehicles from Lego blocks. However, if you feel that using plastic is a little unfriendly to the environment, a new building block ...

In 2019, Bangladesh set a target to end the use of traditional bricks and switch to concrete blocks in all government construction works by June 2025. Aimed at preventing the loss of farmland and the ...

Earth-based building materials have long offered a sustainable alternative to conventional construction, drawing on locally available resources such as clay, sand, and natural fibres. Contemporary ...

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