The two bed-roomed house was constructed using interlocking blocks and has an indoor toilet. The projectcost Shs35m. PHOTOs/Roland NASASIRA. In Kyasira Village, in Katabi Town Council Wakiso District, ...

US Synthetic and its founder Louis Pope charged BYU engineering students to improve the home-building process for rural Kenyans. The students first designed a new type of building block that can ...

Today, Uganda’s growing population attracts the need for not just housing units but affordable and decent structures or house units. With new cost friendly innovations in building, the populations are ...

Managing Director of Reo-Habilis Construction Limited and the immediate past president of the Nigerian Institute of Building, Kunle Awobodu, tells DAMILOLA AINA on why compounds should not be fully ...

Hamza's 3,300 sft house in Pattambi is made with compressed stabilised interlocking blocks from laterite soil and has a 50,000-litre underground water tank. Hamza's 3,300 sft house in Pattambi is made ...

Mark Omwok, an engineer, lost his job in 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 crisis, which saw many companies close their doors while others had to reduce their workforce and scale down operations to ...

Learn how to use a soil blocker and get the perfect soil block recipe to ditch plastic in your seed starting supplies. If you already have a soil blocker, skip to the soil block recipe below. As I dig ...

The technology involves the use of locally baked bricks that interlock without the application of motor, water and sand. It is being piloted in the construction of classrooms, water kiosks, houses, ...