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Eliminating Building Movement from Green Energy Bricks

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The reason for this article is to explain why our Energy Bricks stands as a super product, that eliminates many issues associated with building movement.

Building movement can be caused by a number of factors. We all have become very familiar with looking and seeing cracking in buildings where the drought or cold weather conditions have been blamed. This is particularly used where footings are blamed because of the expansion and contraction of the clay sub base soils. Even though the drought can be a valid reason, it is being blamed far too often, and other basic factors are being overlooked.

Many building materials, of themselves, tend to expand with increase in moisture content and contract with loss of water. For some buildings materials, these movements are theoretically reversible; while for others they are irreversible or only partially reversible. The reality is that it is rarely reversible.

As you can imagine, when it comes to the external wall structure of any building, the wall orientation, the type of materials used, and colour are the governing factors regarding building movement.

Changes in building design have affected the design and behaviour of many building components including masonry walls. The most significant change for brick masonry is the shift from load bearing masonry walls to skeleton frame construction.

Other factors include the use of thinner walls, composite walls and insulated walls. The use of cement based mortars and the tendency to specify high compressive strength mortars have become common. Although stronger units and mortars increase the compressive strength of the masonry, they do so at the expense of other important properties.

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