Build4People is very proud to announce the 4rth video clip of its online exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers”, introducing Kongngy Hav. He is the founder of the social enterprise “My Dream Home” to make affordable housing available in Cambodia, thereby introducing an interlocking brick system made from compressed soil and cement. 💡🧱🧩👷🏽♀️💚🇰🇭
These eco-friendly interlocking bricks significantly reduce the use of sand, cement, and energy compared to traditional red bricks, and they thus leave a lower carbon footprint. The use of non-arable topsoil for brick production aligns with the circular economy’s circularity principle, by reusing a resource – soil – that is typically discarded and used for construction filling. Unlike traditional red clay bricks, which require firing – and in Cambodia, burning wood is most often used for this process – “My Dream Home” bricks undergo compression manufacturing, which leaves a minimal carbon footprint.
In this way Kongngy Hav’s innovative approach has a positive effect on natural resource use, as it promotes material efficiency, waste reduction and all in all a lower carbon footprint.💡🧱🧩👷🏽♀️💚🇰🇭.
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