Back in 2015 we looked at an interesting approach to automated construction in the form of a brick-laying robot, capable of putting together full-sized homes in just two days. The engineers behind the ...

Paul Garbarini can immediately spot people who have been on one of his downtown Charleston tours. "They are the ones standing in front of a brick wall staring at it," he said with a chuckle. Garbarini ...

Hadrian X, a truck-mounted brick-laying robot, will soon be available in the United States. The truck successfully built an outdoor structure with large U.S. format concrete masonry blocks at an ...

An automated machine makes it easy to follow the yellow brick road. When I was a little kid watching The Wizard of Oz, I was in awe of that long and winding brick road. As Dorothy set out on her ...

If I couldn't be standing at the ocean's edge feeling the sand wash out from under my feet, playing in the sand laying brick pavers wasn't so bad. Well, actually, it was kind of brutal in the heat of ...

Jack Hughey is pictured at work in the 1980s. Jack Hughey, along with his crew, are shown working on a pool. Jack Hughey of Alton has marked 50 years as a brick layer. He was hard at work this past ...

Copperas Cove High School students dirtied their hands Wednesday and learned how to build a brick wall during the second annual Masonry Rocks event. Put on by the Texas Masonry Council, the one-day ...

Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District students bind bricks with mortar Wednesday, June 10, 2026, during a masonry program class under their apprenticeship academy at Harlingen Early ...