Chileans have been building with confined masonry for decades.

We also used straw bale infill for our library, which has zero embodied energy.

He took his boss aside, and he showed him the materials on confined masonry.

So it's on legs, so it focuses all the load on the masonry walls and the columns.

This is another infill project on the parking lots, this one of an office park outside of Washington D.C.

So we're talking about things like infill development really sharp little changes to where we have buildings, where we're developing.

Right now, AIDG is working with KPFF Consulting Engineers, Architecture for Humanity, to bring more confined masonry training into Haiti.

We're now planning to infill the dam with cement, and the flood prevention bank will be solid enough to withstand the worst flooding in 50 years.

In this case, a project we're doing with Siemens, we have sensors on all the furniture, all the infill, that understands where people are and what they're doing.

The way at the bottom is a confined masonry building, where the walls are tied together, the building is symmetric, and it will stand up to an earthquake.

And as you come from the north, it is all masonry growing out of the sand cliffs as you come from the Himalayas and evoking the tradition of the fortress.

Seismic standards and confined masonry, where the building acts as a whole walls and columns and roofs and slabs tied together to support each other instead of breaking off into separate members and failing.

Take this flood prevention bank for example, the dam may collapse at any moment when flood hits, and the flood would rush into houses of residents living along the bank. Now we use cement to infill a solid dam so that we could transfer residents along the bank with ease in the case of flooding in a bid to reduce property losses.