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Grain Power: How brewing beer makes a better-insulating brick
A team of researchers has figured out a greener and cheaper way to making better red bricks. Beer. Well, almost. It’s actually spent grain, the byproduct of brewing beer. By mixing in the barley malt and maize grits left over from the brewing process while making red bricks, the bricks become better insulators and don’t lose […]
December 3, 2013
Construction Equipment
British architect creates bricks from cow blood
British architect Jack Munro has been working on a recipe to create a building material from leftover cow blood, Durability and Design first reported. The idea is part of Munro’s graduate project at the University of Westminster, which won the 2012 Rawat Award for Best Graduate Design Project and is nominated for the 2012 RIBA […]
December 7, 2012
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