We’re moving one brick at a time towards a more earth friendly
building future, and researchers in Europe have just thrown
their latest invention into the equation. Teams working together
at the Schools of Architecture at the University of Seville in
Spain and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK have
created a new environmentally friendly building material that is
stronger and uses less energy to make than its conventional
counterpart. The new blocks, which are reinforced by wool and
seaweed, were developed during a push by the two universities to
create more environmentally kind building materials that would
also mechanically improve upon more traditional ones. “The
objective was to produce bricks reinforced with wool and to
obtain a composite that was more sustainable, non-toxic, using
abundant local materials, and that would mechanically improve
the bricks’ strength,” Carmen Galán and Carlos Rivera, authors
of the study and researchers at the universities said about
their invention. Wool and an al