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CO2 Sand Emergency BrickJapanese construction and design firm TIS & Partners has just unveiled a strong and surprisingly low-tech brick that can be rapidly produced in disaster areas, and applied to the quick construction of long lasting shelter. Since the brick’s main component is common sand they can be produce in quantity nearly anywhere. The process of making the brick uses carbon dioxide to harden sand and a binder to provide tensile strength. In fact, the inventor claims the bricks are 2.5 times the tensile strength of concrete in one day, meaning that the construction of walls would need much less steel reinforcement and could be used immediately in emergency constructions.1
CO2 Sand Emergency BrickJapanese construction and design firm TIS & Partners has just unveiled a strong and surprisingly low-tech brick that can be rapidly produced in disaster areas, and applied to the quick construction of long lasting shelter. Since the brick’s main component is common sand they can be produce in quantity nearly anywhere. The process of making the brick uses carbon dioxide to harden sand and a binder to provide tensile strength. In fact, the inventor claims the bricks are 2.5 times the tensile strength of concrete in one day, meaning that the construction of walls would need much less steel reinforcement and could be used immediately in emergency constructions.2
CO2 Sand Emergency BrickJapanese construction and design firm TIS & Partners has just unveiled a strong and surprisingly low-tech brick that can be rapidly produced in disaster areas, and applied to the quick construction of long lasting shelter. Since the brick’s main component is common sand they can be produce in quantity nearly anywhere. The process of making the brick uses carbon dioxide to harden sand and a binder to provide tensile strength. In fact, the inventor claims the bricks are 2.5 times the tensile strength of concrete in one day, meaning that the construction of walls would need much less steel reinforcement and could be used immediately in emergency constructions.3
CO2 Sand Emergency BrickJapanese construction and design firm TIS & Partners has just unveiled a strong and surprisingly low-tech brick that can be rapidly produced in disaster areas, and applied to the quick construction of long lasting shelter. Since the brick’s main component is common sand they can be produce in quantity nearly anywhere. The process of making the brick uses carbon dioxide to harden sand and a binder to provide tensile strength. In fact, the inventor claims the bricks are 2.5 times the tensile strength of concrete in one day, meaning that the construction of walls would need much less steel reinforcement and could be used immediately in emergency constructions.4
CO2 Sand Emergency BrickJapanese construction and design firm TIS & Partners has just unveiled a strong and surprisingly low-tech brick that can be rapidly produced in disaster areas, and applied to the quick construction of long lasting shelter. Since the brick’s main component is common sand they can be produce in quantity nearly anywhere. The process of making the brick uses carbon dioxide to harden sand and a binder to provide tensile strength. In fact, the inventor claims the bricks are 2.5 times the tensile strength of concrete in one day, meaning that the construction of walls would need much less steel reinforcement and could be used immediately in emergency constructions.5
CO2 Sand Emergency BrickJapanese construction and design firm TIS & Partners has just unveiled a strong and surprisingly low-tech brick that can be rapidly produced in disaster areas, and applied to the quick construction of long lasting shelter. Since the brick’s main component is common sand they can be produce in quantity nearly anywhere. The process of making the brick uses carbon dioxide to harden sand and a binder to provide tensile strength. In fact, the inventor claims the bricks are 2.5 times the tensile strength of concrete in one day, meaning that the construction of walls would need much less steel reinforcement and could be used immediately in emergency constructions.6
