Used properly, mud can be a free and durable building material that will stand for generations, while offering a sort of natural air conditioning. And when reinforced with sand, clay, or cement, mud ...

I built a palm thatched mud hut and learned why it failed. Exposure to weather and weak material caused structural issues.

WAYLAND -- Breanna Hupp stomped barefoot in a mud pit, mixing the dirt and water to just the right consistency -- not too thick and not too runny. As Hupp, a Wayland High School senior, marched in the ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkar/local-wkar-914200.mp3 OKEMOS, MI – In the backyard of an Okemos home is the beginning of a 16th century ...

A group of mud-covered Wayland students drew some curious stares from people driving down Superior Street last week. While it may have looked like the students were playing in the mud instead of ...

Girindra Nath Jha was born and raised in the tiny village of Chanka, a settlement in the state of Bihar in northern India, close to the Nepal border. It's mostly grassy fields and mud huts with ...

The challenge for this year’s Mud House Design competition in Ghana was to design a single-family unit on a plot no larger than 60 x 60 feet at a cost of no more than $6,000 (excluding land cost). The ...

Indra Tamang, who grew up in a mud hut in rural Nepal, now owns two apartments at one of New York City’s best-known addresses, after the wealthy family he worked for bequeathed them to him. Tamang, 57 ...

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is proving to be no less than a boon for rural regions of Chhattisgarh.A clear impact of this scheme can be seen in Sarkada village, located in Chhura block ...