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 ...

Godfrey Riddle is about to see his vision rise up out of the earth: The first of 44 tiny houses, 600 square feet each, built to give more people a chance to become homeowners. It’s an idea as old as ...

In an ever-warming climate, compressed earth blocks technology is helping communities stay cooler in hot highland regions of ...

A Chicago-based company wants to help people create an amazing machine that transforms dirt into durable building bricks. The Liberator is a large compressed earth brick press that makes it possible ...

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, ...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS – Extreme manufacturing techniques were on display June 17 to 19 at Mid-State Technical College’s Wisconsin Rapids Campus. A three-day workshop led by Marcin Jakubowski, founder of ...

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 ...

Amid a construction boom, Senegal's capital Dakar is a sea of concrete. But in the Ngor neighborhood, one building stands out from the uniform grey. Its red bricks are made from raw earth. But this ...

Thanks to the unique form, which includes round walls and strategic cutouts that allow natural light to penetrate the interior without encouraging excess heat, ECOHAUS receives significantly less ...

CUSTER – The Midwest Renewable Energy Association, Open Source Ecology and Mid-State Technical College are partnering to offer a three-day Compressed Earth Brick Machine Design and Build Course. The ...

In an outdoor SMU parking lot lab, students are getting their hands dirty—doing good. "This is genuinely one of the most fun parts of this job," said Xander Kirkland. "We do a lot of stuff with ...