Innovative Sustainable Materials: Integration of Fly Ash and Mycelium for Enhancing Compressed Stablized Earth Bricks

Home-building construction has involved the earth as a material for centuries. From mud bricks which are practically simple and sun dried to stronger clay fired up kiln-made bricks, it builds up to highly compressed stabilized earth bricks today, well regarded as the energy efficient, cost-effective, and environmental- friendly bricks contributing towards sustainable development. This study takes a look at mycelium, a kind of fungus that has an obsessed binding function. Mycelium nourishes by sawdust, straw, and grain substrates, degrading cellulose into chitin, which is a reasonably high-strength compound. These materials are expected to grow or assemble themselves, repair themselves, adapt to seasons, utilize natural forces, and live in harmony with the environment; be conducive to biodiversity and natural balance, economically feasible, and require less labor; carbon-free; and waste-free and return to nature whenever the material is no longer needed. These materials aim at sustainable and balanced human development.