The brick church and parish house; presenting a collection of designs for churches, with articles.

Copyright, 1931, Arrow book company: Stamped on verso of half-title.

Bonds and mortars in the wall of brick;

Mode of access: Internet.

Suggestions in brickwork, with illustrations from the architect ure of Italy, together with a catalogue of bricks made by the Hydraulic-press brick companies.

Prepared under the direction of Frank Miles Day. cf. Introd.

Building unit construction : prepared especially for home study /

"5536, edition 1."

Die Schlossbauten zu Raesfeld und Honstorff und die Herrensitze des 17. Jahrhunderts der Maastal-Backstein-Architektur /

Issued by the Westfälischer Heimatbund.

Face and ornamental brickwork : prepared especially for home study /

"1832, edition 1."

Stone masonry : prepared especially for home study /

"1059, edition 3."

Brick detail, Agriculture and Entomology Building, Brisbane

Detailed view of venting in brick work. Bricks used were commons, with prevalent dark blue iron staining.

Sketch of John Gibson Brick Building

Sketch of John Gibson brick building and adjoining lots. This is a hand drawn sketch, n.d.

Building construction; showing the employment of brick, stone, and slate in the practical construction of buildings.

v. 1. Text.--v. 2. Plates.

Windows and venting to elevation, Agriculture and Entomology Building, Brisbane

View to elevation with timber sliding shutters, aluminium double hung sash windows and brick venting.

Evaporation from porous building materials and its cooling potential

Evaporative cooling is a traditional strategy to improve summer comfort, which has gained renewed relevance in the context of the transition to a greener economy. Here, the potential for evaporative cooling of two common porous building materials, natural stone and ceramic brick, was evaluated. The work has relevance also to the protection of built heritage becauseevaporation underlies the problems of dampness and salt crystallization, which are so harmful and frequent in this heritage. It was observed that the drying rate of the materials is, in some cases, higher than the evaporation rate of a free water surface. Surface area measurements by a three-dimensional optical technique suggested, as probable cause of this behavior, that surface irregularity gives rise to a large effective surface of evaporation in the material. Surface temperature measurements by infrared were performed afterward during evaporation experiments outside during a hot summer day in Lisbon. Their results indicate that ordinary building materials can be very efficient evaporative media and, thus, may help in achieving higher energy efficiency while maintaining a simultaneous constructive or architectural function.

Assessment of the properties to characterize the interface between clay brick substrate and strengthening mortar

The behaviour of masonry elements under in-plane and out-of-plane loads can be improved through the application of strengthening systems based on reinforcing overlays. After strengthening, the transition region between the original substrate and the strengthening layer is especially stressed, and premature failure of the strengthened masonry is reached if insufficient interfacial capacity is assured. Therefore, the assessment of the mechanical behaviour of the interface is critical to the development of the masonry strengthening system based on the application of strengthening overlays. In this research a method for the characterization of the interface behaviour between two different materials, a polypropylene fibre reinforced mortar (PFRM) and a ceramic brick used for masonry construction is presented. Direct shear tests were carried out in couplet specimens. Due to the orthotropic nature of the bricks surface, the shear load was applied along three different directions in order to perform an overall estimation of the interface behaviour. The peak and residual shear stresses, as well as the failure modes, were obtained at different levels of the normal stress. Based on these experimental results constitutive laws were assessed for the simulation of the interface mechanical behaviour based on the Mohr and Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria.

Methodology of CO2 emission evaluation in the life cycle of office building facades

The construction industry is one of the greatest sources of pollution because of the high level of energy consumption during its life cycle. In addition to using energy while constructing a building, several systems also use power while the building is operating, especially the air-conditioning system. Energy consumption for this system is related, among other issues, to external air temperature and the required internal temperature of the building. The facades are elements which present the highest level of ambient heat transfer from the outside to the inside of tall buildings. Thus, the type of facade has an influence on energy consumption during the building life cycle and, consequently, contributes to buildings' CO2 emissions, because these emissions are directly connected to energy consumption. Therefore, the aim is to help develop a methodology for evaluating CO2 emissions generated during the life cycle of office building facades. The results, based on the parameters used in this study, show that facades using structural glazing and uncolored glass emit the most CO2 throughout their life cycle, followed by brick facades covered with compound aluminum panels or ACM (Aluminum Composite Material), facades using structural glazing and reflective glass and brick facades with plaster coating. On the other hand, the typology of facade that emits less CO2 is brickwork and mortar because its thermal barrier is better than structural glazing facade and materials used to produce this facade are better than brickwork and ACM. Finally, an uncertainty analysis was conducted to verify the accuracy of the results attained. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.