Mobile Crisis Construction (“MCC”), a registered Australian charity, deploys mobile block factories into crisis zones to rapidly rebuild durable infrastructure. 

The team are currently seeking donations to deploy a block factory to help rebuild Ukrainian infrastructure, using rubble that can be crushed and reformed into blocks. For more information, head over here. 

Their methodology involves four steps: Deploy | Engage | Repurpose | Rebuild

• Deploy: Mobile block factories are deployed to crisis zones by a logistics partner to rapidly rebuild durable infrastructure
• Engage: Locals are engaged and empowered to play a direct role in rebuilding their community
• Repurpose: Rubble is repurposed to make new building blocks (“Crisis Blocks”)
• Rebuild: Crisis Blocks are designed to rebuild structures resistant to earthquakes, cyclones and fire

The block factory

• World first, semi-automated mobile block factory
• The factory can be deployed where large fixed plant cannot
• The factory repurposes rubble, minimising logistics

Crisis blocks

• Crisis Blocks interlock and can be laid by “unskilled” workers
• Crisis Blocks do not require mortar to lay
• Crisis Blocks are made from 90% local material

The structures

• Structures designed to exceed international design codes
• Earthquake, cyclone and fire resistant

The local community

• Permanent housing and infrastructure rapidly rebuilt
• Businesses created, employing locals