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Why your next home may be made from industrial waste Business Around the Region Times Free Press

RamRock Building Systems is all about waste: industrial solid waste, to be specific, and making it into something that serves a purpose.

Using hydraulic compression, the Chattanooga company's technology aims to take discarded demolition and construction material and turn it into interlocking building blocks.

"They stack up like Legos," said David White, RamRock's co-founder and CEO.

Image: RamRock Building Systems, LLC, makes masonry products from non-toxic industrial waste, such as roofing shingles. This demonstration shows how the blocks fit together to make a wall that can be covered behind traditional building materials. This photograph was taken Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn.