Bangladesh, Feb. 25 -- Locally-invented "green blocks" are gradually becoming popular in the country's growing construction sector. These blocks are cheaper, environment-friendly and disaster-resilient.
People at the Housing and Building Research Institute (HBRI), the state-owned key promoter of the brick, told the FE that the brick already grabbed 10 per cent share of the market.
Currently the country produces around 25 billion bricks a year. Around 60 million tonnes of topsoil are used to meet this high demand and that causes dust pollution and degrades the soil quality significantly.
Many studies show that brick kilns in and around Dhaka are responsible for a big share of the densely-populated capital's air pollution.
However, tradit...