You are getting ready to specify brick for your wonderful new home. You desire brick because it is durable, maintenance-free, good-looking, full of texture and waterproof. Whoa, try again! You got ...

Masonry construction is one of the oldest methods of creating built structures. However, the brick wall has changed considerably since the first fired clay bricks were laid nearly 8,000 years ago. To ...

Brick walls may look sturdy, strong, and ready to take on the fiercest storms that Mother Nature can conjure up, but brick construction has proven to be vulnerable during high-wind storms, especially ...

The thermal transmittance and thermal resistance of three various types of domestic dwelling walls are compared. The wall types are: • Brick Cavity – consisting of two walls of 110mm thick extruded ...