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The building sector is responsible for an average of 40% of the total energy consumption in the EU. In Germany itself, in 2007 the share of the room heat accounted for 26.1% of the...
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The exhaust gases from two parallel tunnel kilns at a large, modernly equipped brick-making plant were found to be emitting pronouncedly different organic and inorganic air pollutants,...
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The firing of heavy clay products is subject to a number of such limiting factors as expansion and contraction processes, endothermic and exothermic reactions and the conversion and...
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1.1 Relating Physical Properties to Durability
The potential durability of clay building brick has been studied in some depth since at least the early part of the 1800’s [1]. A...
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Earthen architecture has been in renaissance since the 1980s. The days in which people who build homes of clay were belittled as a tree-hugging minority are over.
Loam and clay have...
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For the third time, and already emerging as a tradition, the forum was held at the Anderson Sports and EntertainmentCenter in Anderson, South Carolina.
As announced by Program Director...
Seven fat years for the Federal Republic of Germany and especially for the domestic property market have been forecast by Daniel Gross, Director of Brussels’ economic research centre CEPS, and even...
Demand for grinded products is rising steadily in Switzerland. Pursuing that trend, the Fribourg & Lausanne AG brick works have invested in a new grinding plant, incl. robotic loading and packaging...
