Most Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs are more comfortable talking about software algorithms and chips than bricks and concrete. But some of them are trying to reinvent the building industry with green tech.

Calstar Products later this year plans to open a factory to manufacture a brick that uses fly ash–the residue from burning coal at power plants–as an ingredient while drastically reducing the amount of energy used in production.

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