Masonry Magazine February 2011 Page. 25
Product Watch
Reclaimed, Glazed Thin Brick
Trikeenan Tileworks Boneyard Brick is a glazed thin brick product that combines reclaimed materials from two factories: post-industrial waste from Trikeenan and Metropolitan Ceramics.
Trikeenan uses salvaged thin brick from Metropolitan's METROBRICK "boneyard," and then glazes it with their recycled glazes. Trikeenan uses a closed-Hoop system, meaning no glaze or clay waste leaves the factory. Clean water in, clean water out. One-hundred percent of any glaze waste is reused in this process. The resulting products have 95 percent recycled content, and are 100 percent VOC free.
Boneyard Brick can be specified in the most demanding of interior and exterior wall cladding environments. Glazed thin brick has the added advantage of being suitable for wet areas, especially those needing sanitary surfaces such as commercial kitchens, bathrooms, pools and spas. The reduced absorption of glazed brick also reduces or eliminates spalling and efflorescence.
Boneyard Brick is offered in 15 colors and three sizes. Edge cap and corner pieces are also available, as are custom colors. All of the bricks are 5/8-inch thick, including a dove tail back that locks into mortar. It can be used in all interior and exterior applications, where either thin brick or tile is traditionally used. Thin brick installations include, among others, cast in concrete, field applied systems, tilt-up panels, insulated concrete formed walls, prefabricated insulated panels, direct applied systems, precast concrete, prefabricated light gauge metal framing, and modular component construction.
LEED points may be available under the categories of recycled content; no VOC emission; regional procurement from local resources and local materials usage; and innovation in design. For more information, visit www.Trikeenan.com.
Colours
Boneyard Bricks are available in 15 reclaimed glaze colours
MANY OF US HAVE, AS CHILDREN AND ADULTS, SPENT TIME EXPLORING DIFFERENT BUILDING ENVIRONMENTS. Playing in a barn in the summer, exploring a vacant building, or visiting a church recalls not only visual memories, but also sensory ones. Recall for a moment, the cool relief of a church interior on a hot day, or the warmth and humidity of the greenhouse on a crisp fall afternoon.
Many of us have, as children and adults, spent time exploring different building environments. Playing in a barn in the summer, exploring a vacant building, or visiting a church recalls not only visual memories, but also sensory ones. Recall for a moment, the cool relief of a church interior on a hot day, or the warmth and humidity of the greenhouse on a crisp fall afternoon.
The construction materials used to build these buildings contribute to their behavior in different climates and add to one's sense of comfort, whether thermal, acoustical or aesthetic. Buildings that provide the most stable thermal environments are, typically, masonry buildings.
Humans have a 3,000-year history with bricks. It has been in regular use since the ancient empires of Mesopotamia, Rome and China to today's global societies. Here is why: Many of the ancient structures still visited and studied worldwide today have one thing in common-construction mass. Whether the product used was stone, concrete or bricks, the design and construction of the structure had substantial mass to withstand the erosion of time and remain habitable for centuries.
In addition to surviving the ages, ancient structures and pre-mechanical temperature control buildings used masonry construction as "thermal mass" to control interior living temperatures. Even today, most residential and smaller commercial buildings in Italy, for example, do not have air conditioning. Instead, they combine the use of bricks and other masonry products, with shading, orientation of windows and shutters to keep the structures temperate.
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Bricks have been in regular use since the ancient empires of Mesopotamia, Rome and China to today's global societies.
As architects and contractors now look for ways to reduce energy consumption and construct long-lasting, low-maintenance structures, bricks should be considered an essential building material. Thanks to features such as thermal mass, durability and flexibility, bricks can play a major role in achieving society's current sustainability goals.
February 2011
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