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 Kenya ...

The authors introduce a set of new Compression-Aware Management Policies (CAMP) for on-chip caches that employ data compression. Their management policies are based on two key ideas. First, they show ...

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% ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...