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Long before cement took over, Indian homes stayed cool and breathable with lime plaster. As cities heat up, this ancient building material may be exactly what we need.

True, both plants rely on nearby deposits of easily accessible rock, but where cement requires limestone, the gravel and sand that go into concrete can come from a wide variety of rock types.

While cement is also used in mortar to build walls from bricks or blocks, sand and hydrated lime are added. If you just used a cement and water mix, there's a real danger the wall would fall over.

This work uses a new cementitious agent composed of porcelain polishing waste and hydrated lime in the mitigation of static liquefaction in a loose dune sand. The undrained behavior of the soil was ...

Lime mortars can also act as a carbon sink, absorbing carbon dioxide from the air as they remineralise and harden into limestone.

If you have a DIY project that you want to use old bricks for, here's a handy guide on how to easily clean off old mortar so you can effectively repurpose them.

From my research 20 kg of lime mortar is used on a 1 m square section of brick wall. 5 kg of lime to 15 kg of aggregate (sand, grog etc.) per a 1 m square section of bricks.

"Producing zero emissions cement is an absolute miracle, but we’ve also got to reduce the amount of cement and concrete we use," said Professor Julian Allwood, who led the research.

Concrete is made from sand, gravel, water, and cement, which serves as a binder. Although it's a small proportion of concrete, cement is responsible for almost 90% of concrete emissions.