GREEN BRICKS

Green Bricks is an alternative for use of construction on the place of clay

bricks, thus decreases the cost of construction of buildings
 BRICKS BY USING SOLID WASTE TO IMPROVE
GREEN BUILDING AND SUSTAINABLITY

OBJECTIVE To prepare GREEN BRICKS from waste raw materials

CERAMIC WASTE

SOLID WASTE(POLYSTRENE, GLASS WASTE)

 NOVELTIES
Additional predictable properties compare to the conventional
bricks as:
Thermal insulation
Lower water absorption
High Acoustic barrier
Low shrinkage values
Higher compressive and tensile strength
Light weight
Resistant to acid rain water
Environmental friendly
Cost efficient
 (a) (b)
the samples used for testing (a) in laboratory dryer ;(b) on the temperature measurement stand
Core ingredients

S. Raw materials Percentage(assumption)

no.
1 Ceramic 50-70%
2 E-waste 10-15%
3 Glass 7-18%
4 polystyrene 5-10%
STRENGTH DUE THE POLYSTYRENE IN BRICKS

plastic soil brick

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 CERAMIC with POLYSTYRENE increases the sound insulation.

 Source: Jacek Nurzyński* Building Research Institute ITB, ul. Filtrowa 1, Warsaw 00-611, Poland
 Ceramic compare to fired clay brick
(thermal conductivity)
Ceramic v/s Clay brick

since ceramic have less thermal conduction therefore

The ceramic super efficiently increases the thermal insulation.
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 source: B. Shanmugavalli1, K. Gowtham2, B. Eswara Moorthi3, P. Jeba Nalwin4
 1Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, Sethu Institute of Technology, Virudhunagar
2,3,4UG Student, Civil Engineering, Sethu Institute of Technology, Virudhunagar
Comparison to existing technology
 This idea of composing of bricks using variety of
waste is completely unique no such product is
available in market.
The available plastic sand bricks have low fire
resistance but our bricks will be have enough fire
resistance due to availability of glass, ceramic and E-
waste.
The bricks made by only glass till now is found less
impact resistance.
 Thermal power of material
tested
Material type Sand lime brick Fire clay brick Ceramic brick
m(kg) 0.465 0.439 0.536
c(j/kg .k) 800 850 850
T (k) 94.1 58.1 73.5
Q(KJ) 35.01 21.68 33.49
t(s) 9000 9000 9000
P(w) 3.889 2.408 3.720
where: m: sample weight, c: specific heat, ΔT: temperature difference, E = ΔQ = c∙m∙ΔT: amount of emitted energy, t; emission time; p;
pthermal power

THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE(TES) materials has the ability to absorb, store and
exchange heat energy.

, high thermal power of material (the material ability to return the energy to the
environment, in a given time).
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Fire resistance & thermal properties in
polystyrene brick
 CVM (customer value model) Cum
Market Review
Properties Clay bricks CONCRETE SAND LIME GREENBRICK
bricks bricks (assumption)

Compressive 7 to 14 N/mm2 10.5 N/mm2 10 to <10 N/mm2)

strength 12N/mm2 (approx)*
Water 12 to 20% 12 to 20% 11.7% < 12%(approx)*
absorption(24
HOUR
SUBMERGED)

Thermal 0.2sq/ inch 0.08to 1.2/sq 1.2 to 1.5sq/ Upto 2 sq/inch

insulation(R inch inch (approx)*
value)
Resistant to not less than 2 to 2.8gm Not less than <2 gm
acid 1.5gm 2.5 gm (approx)*
rainwater(in
weight)
Properties Clay bricks CONCRETE SAND LIME GREENBRICK
bricks bricks (assumption)

Chemical Less resistive resistive resistive Highly resistive

resistance

Environmental lowest moderate most most

friendly

Load bearing lowest high High highest

capacity

Water highest high Lower lowest

absorption
Acoustic low low Good high
insulation

*approximation as per prior research in respective field and data

 COMMERCIAL VIABILITY
Acquiring investor’s consent for establishing the
industry (REVENUE MODEL):

Gaining financial aid from the government and

NGO’s because product aims towards green material
and solid waste management.
Convincing preferred stakeholders from
construction industrial background by our effective
CVM (costumer value model).
COST EFFECTIVENESS

All the raw materials are easily available waste.

BEST OUT OF WASTEWASTE TO WEALTH.
Manufacturing requires lesser power supply.
Only production and transportation cost required.
Less mortar quantity required for masonary work.
Round the year production.
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