The new Terca Eco-Brick facing bricks from Wienerberger are only 65 mm wide, the clay building materials manufacturer announces. This also results in interesting advantages for architects, planners...
Dear readers,We live in exciting times that have brought many changes, especially in the last two years, including here in this editorial office. After joining Bauverlag as editor in September 2020 to...
At the beginning of November, the members of the Brick Research Association met for their annual conference in Berlin. Rainer Berentelg, Chairman of the Board of the FGZ, expressed his pleasure at...
The Brick Award jury will soon have to decide on the record number of 789 architectural projects submitted from 53 countries worldwide. Compared to 2020, this is an increase in submissions of 22...
At the beginning of August, the Bavarian Minister of State for Housing, Construction and Transport, Kerstin Schreyer (MdL), gave the starting signal for the commissioning of the new photovoltaic plant...
Mineral carbonation, or mineral sequestration, of CO2 was proposed by Seiftriz in 1990 [3] as an equivalent process that occurs naturally from weathering of silicate rocks into carbonates in a...
The German clay brick and tile industry has defined sustainability as a key issue for the future and announced climate neutrality by 2050. As a consequence, high-carbon brick clays like marly clays...
The Park Books publishing house has published a 208-page book about Zurich‘s brick architecture. It points out that about one thousand brick-faced buildings erected at the end of the 19th century...
Guests can feel the cheerful atmosphere that surrounds the Balthasar Hospice for Children and Young Adults in Olpe near Cologne even in the car park. The surfacing of colourful clay pavers lies like a...
Nowadays, 3D printing makes things possible that engineers and mechanical engineers only dared to dream about for a long time. In various fields of application and disciplines, the technology is...
