The first step to making your own fire pit is to dig out a dedicated space in your yard for the fire pit base. The following are the fire pit dimensions we used for this project. A 3-ft.-diameter ...

Of all the materials suitable for use in patio construction, brick stands out for its beauty and ease of installation. Depending on the sophistication of your design, it may be possible to build a ...

A few weeks ago a visitor to my AsktheBuilder.com site wanted to know about brick foundations. Karen has an ambitious desire to build a small 900-square-foot house by herself. She is well aware of her ...

Back in 2021, researchers came up with a recipe for greener concrete that had building waste and CO2 among its ingredients. Now the same team has used rubble from a demolished school and the ...

The ways modern science has harnessed the waste products of the human body for good may surprise, with researchers recently using urine to power mobile phones, hydrogen vehicles and even form ...

Bricks are used in the construction of different parts of facilities and buildings such as like walls, ceilings, door frames, stairs, and foundations. It can also build functional furniture like ...

A large mushroom farm near Nairobi is producing mycelium for building materials that end up as fungi-based panels, which are ...

Sort A Brick uses computer vision and AI to automatically assemble sets from used building blocks. Missing parts are added.