CommunicationPublished on 15 August 2024

The modern, eco-friendly brick

The modern, eco-friendly brick

Bern — Cities across Africa are experiencing unstoppable growth. Through its PROECCO project, the SDC is supporting sustainable urban development in the Great Lakes region. The project centres on a technology for manufacturing modern bricks. In the Rwandan capital of Kigali alone, the project has saved 115,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions since it launched in 2013.

A woman wearing blue overalls and an orange hard hat moves a pile of bricks onto a trolley.
Newcomers in the city build the sort of houses that cannot withstand extreme weather conditions in very densely-populated neighbourhoods.
Daniel Wyss, PROECCO project manager at SKAT Consulting
The inclusive transformation of informal settlements supported by PROECCO, using locally-produced and sustainable building materials, has increased the resilience of urban populations to natural disasters, which are being further exacerbated by climate change.
Nicolas El-Hayek, PROECCO officer at the Swiss embassy in Kigali

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