A midwestern builder cut his labor costs per thousand bricks from $81 to $43.50 by adopting this same process, cut them another $7.50 to $36 by buying his bricks in convenient, easy-to-spot 100-brick packages.

Adobe (, ; Arabic: الطوب ) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material ( sticks, straw, and / or manure ), which the builders shape into bricks ( using frames ) and dry in the sun.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

Adobe structures are constructed with bricks created from sand, clay, and water, with some fibrous or organic material, shaped using frames and dried in the sun.

In a less clinical and more colloquial sense, bricks are made from dried earth, usually from clay-bearing subsoil.

The earliest bricks were dried brick, meaning they were formed from clay-bearing earth or mud, and dried ( usually in the sun ) until they were strong enough for use.

The oldest discovered bricks, originally made from shaped mud and dating to before 7500 BC were found at Tell Aswad, in the upper Tigris region and in southeast Anatolia close to Diyarbakir.

In the 12th century, bricks from Northern-Western Italy were re-introduced to Northern Germany, where an independent tradition evolved.

To anonymous laborers fell the less skilled stages of brick production: mixing clay and water, driving oxen over the mixture to trample it into a thick paste, scooping the paste into standardized wooden frames ( to produce a brick roughly 42 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm thick ), smoothing the surfaces with a wire-strung bow, removing them from the frames, printing the fronts and backs with stamps that indicated where the bricks came from and who made them, loading the kilns with fuel ( likelier wood than coal ), stacking the bricks in the kiln, removing them to cool while the kilns were still hot, and bundling them into pallets for transportation.

In operation, new green bricks, along with roofing bricks, are stacked at one end of the brick pile ; cooled finished bricks are removed from the other end for transport.

Hollow bricks are lighter and easier to handle, and have thermal properties different from solid bricks.

In Britain particularly, good quality building stone became ever more expensive during a period of rapid growth, and it became a common practice to construct prestige buildings from the new industrial bricks, and to finish them with a stucco to imitate stone.

This house is constructed from bricks and wood and was later covered by insulating panels.

In the Norman Abbey tower, you can still see the Roman bricks removed from Verulamium.

The ancient city of Harappa was greatly destroyed under the British Raj, when bricks from the ruins were used as track ballast in the making of the Lahore-Multan Railroad.

* Hack ( masonry ), a row of stacked unfired bricks protected from the rain

Very old bricks that wash up on Pinney's Beach after storms may have contributed to this legend of a sunken town ; however these bricks are thought to be dumped ballast from 17th and 18th century sailing ships.

One church built with those bricks is the church in Lomma, ( Lomma kyrka ), a large neo Gothic church that was finished in the 1870s.

A distinction is sometimes made between the smaller adobes, which are about the size of ordinary baked bricks, and the larger adobines, some of which may be one to two yards ( 1 – 2 m ) long.

After drying a few hours, the bricks are turned on edge to finish drying.

Other large adobe structures are the Huaca del Sol in Peru, with 100 million signed bricks, the ciudellas of Chan Chan and Tambo Colorado, both in Peru ( in South America ).

Adobe bricks are laid by course.

Within the last courses of brick, bond beams are laid across the top of the bricks to provide a horizontal bearing plate for the roof to distribute the weight more evenly along the wall.

Depending on the thickness of the adobe bricks, the framework has been performed using a steel framing and a layering of a metal fencing or wiring over the framework to allow an even load as masses of adobe are spread across the metal fencing like cob and allowed to air dry accordingly.

A combination of the bricks and adobe mortar that are laid across the beams creates an even load-bearing pressure that can last for many years depending on attrition.

Once the beams are laid across the building, it is then time to begin the placing of adobe bricks to create the roof.

Roman bricks are often stamped with the mark of the legion that supervised their production.

Brick Gothic buildings, which are built almost exclusively of bricks, are to be found in Denmark, Germany, Poland, and Russia.

These bricks are the earliest bricks discovered that were made by a fired process.

Modern clay bricks are formed in one of three processes-soft mud, dry press, or extruded.

Half or more of the trench is filled with " green " ( unfired ) bricks which are stacked in an open lattice pattern to allow airflow.

Sheet metal or boards are used to route the airflow through the brick lattice so that fresh air flows first through the recently burned bricks, heating the air, then through the active burning zone.

Instead, the locations at which the bricks are loaded, fired, and unloaded gradually rotate through the trench.

If the example with the colored bricks above is viewed as an unbounded knapsack problem, then the solution is to take three yellow boxes and three grey boxes.

Since the early 1980s, the numbers have been painted directly on the bricks, in yellow.

It is constructed out of local golden yellow brick with more expensive red bricks used for detailing on corners and chimneys.

* The Porter Memorial Library at 87 Main St. is built of fine yellow bricks made of local kaolin clay, also used in part of the State House in Boston.

It was made of bricks, created near the North River, and was ornamented with yellow bricks from Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and sandstone from Amherst, New York.

According to local legend, the Yellow Brick Road was derived from a road paved with yellow bricks near Holland, Michigan, where Baum summered.

The first fundraiser is underway and includes selling personalized yellow engraved bricks to become part of the permanent walkway ( aka " The Yellow Brick Road ") in downtown Wamego.

The ships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet were described as " impossibly huge yellow somethings " that " looked more like they had been congealed than constructed " and " hung in the air in much the same way that bricks don't " ( the colour being a parallel to bulldozers that demolish Arthur's house ); they are said to be undetectable to radar and capable of travel through hyperspace.

When builders examined the exterior façade, they discovered that the black colour visible even in photographs from the mid-nineteenth century was misleading ; the bricks were actually yellow.

To preserve the ' traditional ' look of recent times, the newly cleaned yellow bricks were painted black to resemble their well-known appearance.

Bathurst's Courthouse ( c. 1860 ) designed by colonial architect James Barnet stands in a prominent city position and is neo-classical style with octagonal Renaissance dome, a doric portico with pediment, octagonal tower with turret, stone facings and brick pilasters, a colonnade of Doric pillars, a sage-green roof, red bricks, yellow bricks and long lines of sash windows.

Forenede Teglværker decided to donate 1 million yellow bricks and tiles worth c. 50, 000 Dkr and later decided to extend the donation to all bricks needed to construct the building.

The JLC's million-dollar facade at its northeast corner is a replica of the Talbot Inn using " retumbled " yellow brick ( new yellow bricks that have been scuffed up and scarred to appear old ).

The interior uses a mixture of coloured bricks and stone in yellow, pink, red, black and white.

The small yellow bricks used in its construction were imported from the Dutch Republic and the sizable mansion ranked highly in the province for its quality.

It cost £ 900 and is of red bricks with yellow sandstone details.

The bricks were available in four colors: red, yellow, blue, and white.

It is built in red bricks with yellow stone plinths, bands and other dressings and is listed at Grade II.

In 2011, restorations are taking place that will include the west facade being cleaned, bringing the bricks back to their original yellow colour.