Brick is a common material used for construction due to its strength and longevity. Generally brick walls are covered with different types of mortars for add...

The first steel manual press which has been produced in the world in the 1950’s was the Cinvaram. It was the result of a research programme for a social hous...

Rammed earth walls (aka pise) are constructed by the compacting (ramming) of moistened subsoil into place between temporary formwork panels. When dried, the ...

Auroville has an abundance of red soil, and it can be used in the construction in a lot of ways. One of the ways in which we use this material is for plaster...