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Pretty sure people have been making bricks that way since ancient egypt or even before.
TECHScientists make breakthrough brick from soil and sand with remarkable properties: 'Nature has been a great teacher'
The innovation has the potential to change the very foundation of the construction sector. Scientists make breakthrough brick from soil and sand with remarkable properties: 'Nature has been a great teacher' This is the link to the article. I am just looking for some opinions on the subject from those with some knowledge and education in the field. As for me I grew up with hands on experience in all types of construction and to me their maybe be problems with the new building material depending on the climate conditions.
Sometimes I think we're only catching up to what man of the past already knew and made applicable.
Of course, there's probably a lot of shady reasons why it was all ''fogotten'' anyway.
that depends largly on the composition of "soil" and the conditions of drying (adobe would be sun dried (and dependent on local conditions) kiln drying opens up all kinds of high tech variations of temperature, pressure, time in the oven, etc etc etc.That was my thinking also like Adobe bricks. How would these new bricks hold up under extreme conditions is another question.
I think 3d printed houses will be the next big thing in the construction world. This brick technology may be a nice complement.
TECHScientists make breakthrough brick from soil and sand with remarkable properties: 'Nature has been a great teacher'
The innovation has the potential to change the very foundation of the construction sector. Scientists make breakthrough brick from soil and sand with remarkable properties: 'Nature has been a great teacher' This is the link to the article. I am just looking for some opinions on the subject from those with some knowledge and education in the field. As for me I grew up with hands on experience in all types of construction and to me their maybe be problems with the new building material depending on the climate conditions.
The only brick I would consider decent in the UK is a Furness brick. Something compressed out of sand and soil does sound like a good candidate for the likes of Africa. Many Ibstock bricks are crap.
TECHScientists make breakthrough brick from soil and sand with remarkable properties: 'Nature has been a great teacher'
The innovation has the potential to change the very foundation of the construction sector. Scientists make breakthrough brick from soil and sand with remarkable properties: 'Nature has been a great teacher' This is the link to the article. I am just looking for some opinions on the subject from those with some knowledge and education in the field. As for me I grew up with hands on experience in all types of construction and to me their maybe be problems with the new building material depending on the climate conditions.
So when your houses catches fire, it drops molten plastic onto youThey are making bricks from recycled plastic also.
3 d printing is mind boggling. add artificial intelligence and advances comparable to this one in materials science. talk about a "great replacement theory."I think 3d printed houses will be the next big thing in the construction world. This brick technology may be a nice complement.
If not here then certainly on the moon or mars.3 d printing is mind boggling. add artificial intelligence and advances comparable to this one in materials science. talk about a "great replacement theory."
it would certainly make planetary or asteroidal colonization easier to plan, at least the initial phases, without shipping food, water, or return fuel to the weight manifest.If not here then certainly on the moon or mars.
Can't wait to find out their reaction when they realize bricks have been made this way since about 7000 BC.
TECHScientists make breakthrough brick from soil and sand with remarkable properties: 'Nature has been a great teacher'
The innovation has the potential to change the very foundation of the construction sector. Scientists make breakthrough brick from soil and sand with remarkable properties: 'Nature has been a great teacher' This is the link to the article. I am just looking for some opinions on the subject from those with some knowledge and education in the field. As for me I grew up with hands on experience in all types of construction and to me their maybe be problems with the new building material depending on the climate conditions.
''The properties built with the materials can reportedly float, produce power, and grow food, all according to a news release from the university''. I would like to see structures built of it myself and exactly see what they are talking about. Like other posters it reminds me of ancient buildings made of adobe and other types of material which would stay cool in summer and mild in winter. I am not sure why being able to float would be positive and if it is that light how would it hold up to storm like winds. Or how it would produce food.Can't wait to find out their reaction when they realize bricks have been made this way since about 7000 BC.
we lad a big freeze on super bowl sunday while i was out of town so every pipe under my house broke. i put in polybutalene . try to find a plumber, or pipe, after a freeze that deep and widespread in the southern gulf states. anyway my hardware guys had enough polybutalene and fittings. took me a few hours to put it in.Construction is an interesting industry. There is always something new being developed and regular joes like me have to learn how to use it and install it. A new self-heating concrete is being developed. Not all new innovations work out I remember when Poly Butylene plumbing pipe and aluminum instead of wood was the big thing. Both have faded out due to unforeseen issues.
Can't wait to find out their reaction when they realize bricks have been made this way since about 7000 BC.