Bricks consist of fired ceramic, clay, or cement materials that are cut into specific shapes, such as a rectangle, and used for building walls or furnaces or for paving surfaces. Bricks vary in ...

Research could pave way for cheap supercapacitor storage of renewable energy The humble house brick has been turned into a battery that can store electricity, raising the possibility that buildings ...

A company called Kite Bricks is out to disrupt the construction business starting with the humble brick. Kite Bricks has developed "Smart Bricks" (S-Bricks) made out of high-strength concrete that can ...

Lego has abandoned plans to make its famous bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying that the manufacturing process would be more polluting than the current production of oil-based bricks. Lego ...

If there’s one thing wars are good at, it’s turning buildings into rubble. But this mobile manufacturing machine does the reverse, turning rubble from destroyed buildings into bricks – bricks which ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Verdon is a veteran retail reporter based in Northern New Jersey. The Lego Group built itself into one of the largest toy ...

Maison Hermès / Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Image © Michel Denancé, courtesy of Renzo Piano Building Workshop Glass brick facades have emerged as a captivating ...

Danish toymaker Lego has abandoned its pilot programme to make recycled plastic bricks from discarded bottles after projections suggested that, adopted at scale, the material would ultimately have a ...