DEVELOPMENT OF NEW AGE CONSTRUCTION BRICKS USING SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS

Abstract

Bricks are the primary building material for various construction applications across the globe. In today's rapidly shifting construction technologies, the urge of developing further durable and efficient supplements much beyond the critical constraints of our conventional options is obliging civil engineers. Numerous studies have taken practical leaps for making bricks such alternatives from a diverse range of waste materials. Though a lot of derivatives have been drawn out, the unpleasant factors observed in those conventional bricks haven't been overcome yet with an efficient and sustainable solution. This research aims to derive an efficient yet sustainable option with due respect to both existing manufacturing procedures and the raw material in the market. Also, we attempted to get the undesirable properties by means of already performed research analyzed by various experts. This work is an attempt to suppress the distance observed between studies made and implemented applications while suggesting even more sustainable and sophisticated methods of brick manufacturing in the future. We used fly ash as a substitute for cement in all the mixes and used alternative sustainable materials for substituting fine aggregate material. The objective of this work is to get less weight, less water absorbent, good strength, and economical bricks.