Continue reading here... http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estat ... nd-qualityBrick prices fall as new machine changes supply and quality
As the construction sector in Cambodia grows, the demand for construction materials has steadily increased from year to year, especially the demand for bricks in home construction. Yet despite the increase in demand, the price for bricks has fallen sharply compared to 2014 due in part to the increase of production and lower cost of manufacturing as techniques begin to modernize, said brick kiln owners.
Preab Koy, owner of a brick kiln in the Mukh Kompul District of Kandal Province, said brick prices have fallen to $280 to $300 per 1,000 bricks compared to last year at this time when the price was $320 to $330....
Brick prices fall
Brick prices fall
I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
Continue reading here... http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weeke ... me-housingBuilding blocks for low-income housing
According to a report put out by the World Bank earlier this year, Cambodia has the second-fastest expanding urban area in East Asia.
But as any trip to the outskirts of Phnom Penh quickly reveals, sanitary housing for the cities’ new arrivals are not growing at a comparable pace.
Now, a social enterprise initiative from Hav Kongngy, a 30-year-old Cambodian who spent the past two years in Australia and then in Germany, is hoping to address the disparity.
My Dream Home sells durable, inexpensive and environmentally friendly bricks directly to those looking to construct a building.
The bricks work like Lego: they are interlocking and of a uniform shape, reducing the need for mortar and plaster to keep the structure in place.
“It will be the first social enterprise in Cambodia that focuses on decent homes for low and middle income people, slum settlers and garment workers,” Kongngy said.
A key advantage of the bricks used by My Dream Home is that they can cost as little as half the price of regular bricks: the fact they don’t need to be kiln-fired significantly reduces labour time.
And although assembling the Lego-like blocks requires no construction skills, Kongngy says the bricks are designed to build structures that endure, potentially lasting for more than a hundred years.
I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
There is a similar block in Australia that locks together but it is bonded by a glue from a normal mastic gun. This guy should have just copied that block, it has to be better if you can glue them together.
Which kind of bricks are those spoken of in the article? The perforated largish ones or the basic small ones without holes?
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