The Government in 2003 introduced the interlocking brick making machine technology. The formal launch of Appropriate Building Technology programme was in 2006.

The Hydraform Interlocking block making machines, numbering 50, which are said to have no commercial viability, are said to be locked up in a warehouse; and they cost the taxpayer GHC4,653,513.

The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform built 27 affordable homes on the Radway Green Farm Agri-Village outside Grahamstown, in the Eastern Cape, using brick- and block-making machine ...

It can produce about 700bricks per day. The interlocking machine is also capable of producing approximately 500 standard size blocks in an eight hour day.

Manual machine After buying the interlocking block machines from the trainer, Mr Odie was offered a one-week free practical demonstration on how to make the building material.