Cement—the essential binding ingredient in concrete, bricks, and mortar—is a climate nightmare. To make it, you heat limestone and clay to extremely high temperatures using carbon-polluting fossil ...

Ancient buildings in Rome, Athens, London and other historical cities across the world, were built using bricks. And the technology of bricks has evolved over millennia, with the greatest breakthrough ...

More permanent than a dry-laid brick sidewalk is its mortar-set cousin. The idea: a regular concrete sidewalk is poured, then topped by mortar-setting and grouting bricks into place atop the rough ...

Dezeen promotion: concrete bricks manufactured by Marshalls have been found to contain almost 50 per cent less embodied carbon than traditional clay bricks, according to the British manufacturing ...