ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/770277/this-new-brick-by-mit-researchers-uses-almost-no-energy-and-depletes-landfills Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:30:00 +0000 Eric Oh https://www.archdaily.com/770277/this-new-brick-by-mit-researchers-uses-almost-no-energy-and-depletes-landfills India has one of the fastest growing populations in the world and to accommodate it, a better building material is needed. Currently over 200 billion of the country’s traditional clay fired bricks are manufactured every year, resulting in numerous pollution and environmental problems. To address these issues, a team from MIT –- composed of students Michael Laracy and Thomas Poinot, along with professors Elsa Olivetti, Hamlin Jennings and John Ochsendorf -- has developed Eco-BLAC bricks: an alternative to traditional bricks that reuses industrial waste and is low-cost and low energy.

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