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Article: Building a better brick.(Materials Science)
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- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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Just another brick in the wall? Not exactly. Partners in a Danish housing project have just finished using a new recycled brick in the construction of 26 houses. Although there are few firm figures to date, recycling bricks this way is expected to save energy and money, reduce emissions of pollutants such as carbon dioxide during the manufacturing process, and slash the extraction of virgin clay, sand, and gravel. Detailed postconstruction analyses investigating these assumptions should be available over the course of the next year.
The idea for using recycled bricks emerged when the Danish nonprofit housing company Herning Boligselskab asked COWI, a global ...