University of Cross River State

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Brickmaker

In Nigeria, houses are normally built with cement blocks. However, the downturn in the Nigerian economy has made the use of cement blocks expensive, particularly for the medium and low-income earners. For this category of persons, cement-stabilised compressed earth bricks are a far more viable option, economically. At another end, brickmaking is an important part of the curriculum for visual arts. Yet, students of visual arts in Nigerian universities do not have access to a brickmaking machine to make the bricks needed for firing to produce refractory bricks required for ceramic kilns production and maintenance. Against this backdrop, the Nicost team designed and produced a semiautomatic compressed brick machine that produces two bricks in one pass. The brick uses 24v DC, which makes its power consumption low, able to be powered by small electricity generators. Additionally, because it is DC 24v, there is no risk of electric shock.

Apart from these advantages, the innovative Brickmaker was designed to be controlled by a touchscreen interphase, in which users can select from English, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo as the input language. Thus, this unique and innovative technology enables users in Nigeria to produce bricks with a machine they can control in their own mother tongues, as against the imported technologies that require foreign and colonial languages to operate.

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