“The blocks are made with natural add, which is abundantly available all over the world,” says Alpha Omar Jallow, the construction manager at Earthworks Construction. “In The Gambia we have the right ...

Strong, easy to build with, eco friendly, cool and affordable would be the best way to describe the compressed stabilized earth bricks (CSEB) manufactured by youth being trained by Projects For Youth ...

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 ...

When Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, came to Senegal last February for an economic summit, he took a break from conference rooms in the capital city of Dakar to get his hands dirty, ...

The biggest obstacle in scaling Compressed Earth Blocks for housing is the price and environmental effect of cement which needs to be used as a binder. 5-7% of the block is cement, responsible for 50% ...

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 ...

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 ...

To build the walls of this house in Mexico City, architecture firm ASP Arquitectura Sergio Portillo took soil excavated from the site and turned it into blocks. ASP Arquitectura Sergio Portillo ...

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