On Aug. 3, 1889, Zanesville Courier subscribers read about a columnist's tour of the T. B. Townsend & Company brickyard. The company, which employed from 150 and 200 men, had the capacity to produce ...

Business plans are the guiding documents of both new and established businesses. Business plans quantify the business concept, the market the business will serve and the necessary finances, according ...

This shed is like a huge mixing bowl, where natural clay, dirt and sand are scooped together in the right proportions, and the process of making bricks begins. Pete Schneider of St. Joe Brickworks ...

British architect Jack Munro tests a gruesome and ingenious building material. It sounds like something out of a Dario Argento film: soaring architecture built with fresh blood and sand. It’s no camp ...

Historically in New Jersey, the vast majority of brick makers and their brickyards could be found in the southern and eastern central part of the state. In those areas, large quantities of clay were ...

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 ...

University of Cape Town researchers, including Dr. Dyllon Randall and students Vukheta Mukhari and Suzanne Lambert, from left to right, have created “bio-bricks” from human urine, loose sand and ...

A team of about 15 Savannah Tech students smacked wet clay onto a pile of bricks Monday at Lebanon Plantation on Ogeechee Road. The group of masonry and historic preservation students constructed a ...