Green bricks offer structural benefits

23 April 2010

Energy efficient brick brand Green Energy Bricks offers more than environmental advantages; it also facilitates construction and promises to reduce the tiresome building movement that plagues many homes, causing cracks and instability.

With an impressive R8+ insulation rating, Green Energy Bricks cut down on construction time and costs. The lightweight bricks are also load-bearing and require no core filling.

Given that up to 35 per cent of heat lost through uninsulated walls, and a further 25 per cent through single glazed windows, the company's energy bricks perform a key role in the energy savings of any new home or renovation.

Moreover, energy bricks eliminate the issues behind building movement. With footings typically blamed for movement due to the expansion and contraction of the clay sub base soils in drought conditions, other factors are often overlooked.

While a number of methods have been introduced to lessen the impact of ‘brick creep', such as the use of articulation joints, the more components used to build the walls, the more chances there are of building movement due to expansion and contraction.

Green Energy Bricks remove the need for multi stage, multi trade, and multi material processes of wall construction, while delivering impressive savings thanks to their structural properties, speed of construction, massive R8+ insulation, and lack of building movement.

Featuring an attractive finish and maintenance, high durability and high load bearing capacity coupled with the highest in acoustic and thermal performance, Green Energy Bricks are 600mm long x 300mm high x 320mm wide, with each brick equivalent in size to laying 18 standard clay bricks in double brick.

Each brick comprises a central core of rigid Polyisocyanurate Foam (PIR) with an external and internal skin of 9mm Magnesium Oxide Board, making it light weight, load bearing and aesthetically pleasing.

Green Energy Bricks will showcase its product range at the Building & Home Improvement Expo from 9-11 July at Melbourne Exhibition Centre.

www.greenenergybricks.com.au

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