The annual brickmaking process covers many months, culminating in October and November with the building of a kiln — a new ...

Even after 10 years, the process of making bricks doesn’t get old for Colonial Williamsburg’s Josh Graml. Graml, who has been a journeyman in the masonry department for the past 10 years, said in his ...

A team of about 15 Savannah Tech students smacked wet clay onto a pile of bricks Monday at Lebanon Plantation on Ogeechee Road. The group of masonry and historic preservation students constructed a ...

Thousands of bricks are being put to the fire in Colonial Williamsburg this week, as an annual November tradition heats up the old-fashioned way. Each November, typically the week before Thanksgiving, ...

One by one, Idaho’s frontier towns began to replace their downtown wooden buildings with brick. Because brick was heavy, most places found it less expensive to manufacture the brick at home than to ...

On Aug. 3, 1889, Zanesville Courier subscribers read about a columnist's tour of the T. B. Townsend & Company brickyard. The company, which employed from 150 and 200 men, had the capacity to produce ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – Every day that Dil Agha works at his backbreaking job at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, from before sunrise to well after sunset, he digs himself ...

DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Researchers in Bangladesh are developing new building materials to mitigate the environmental damage caused by brick manufacturing. The country produces 25 billion ...