Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad and KIIT School of Architecture, Bhubaneshwar, have developed bio-bricks from agricultural waste products.
This serves the dual purpose of waste management, and development of eco-friendly building materials, a IITH release said on Wednesday.
The research was undertaken by Priyabrata Rautray, PhD scholar, Design Department, IIT Hyderabad and Avik Roy, Assistant Professor, KIIT School of Architecture, Bhubaneshwar.
The research work, guided by Deepak John Mathew, Head, Design Department, IIT Hyderabad and Boris Eisenbart from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, was presented at the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED-2019) at TU Delft, Netherlands, it said.
The bio-brick received a Special Recognition Trophyfor sustainable housing at Rural Innovators Start-Up Conclave 2019 organised recently by the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), ...
