03-22-2018 DESIGN Why We Should Be Building Like Ancient Greeks An MIT professor introduces cyclopean masonry, a new method of building that’s actually really old.

More than half a billion tons of construction and demolition materials end up in U.S. landfills every year. Reusing that rubble, as our ancient ancestors did, could offset the waste.

The quake brought down walls made from stone and masonry not designed to withstand quakes, covering whole communities with rubble and leaving residents picking their way precariously through remains.

According to ASI officials, the double-storey mosque was built with thickly-plastered rubble stone, with the lower storey consisting only of a series of basement cells.

Unique masonry Ashlar is a finely dressed stone, which is given the shape of bricks and has smooth edges and parallel faces, in rubble masonry, random uncut stones are fixed with mortar ...

A new stone recycling business has opened in Georgetown, complete with its own set of train tracks. “We’re recycling blacktop and concrete rubble, crushing it to resell and saving it from ...