What are the alternate building blocks which can used in place of ordinary building stones and bricks?
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What are the alternate building blocks which can used in place of ordinary building stones and bricks?
Komal Bhandakkar
Here, I will be discussing some popular innovative building blocks used in building specially in architectural point of view. They are listed below;
1) Light transmitting concrete block (LTC) :
Speciality of light transmitting concrete are given below;
2) Intelligent responsive glass unit
3) Carbon fibre
4) Straw
5) Concrete block
6) Concrete masonry unit (CMU)
7) K-Briq:
8) reThink Wood Unit
9) BlingCrete
10)Aspal
11) ThroCrete
AdityaBhandakkar
Nowadays traditional building materials get replaced by a modern construction material in this way the clay burnt bricks are replaced by hollow concrete blocks
Autoclaved aerated concrete blocks
Interlocking blocks
Lightweight cellular concrete blocks
Following are some modern concrete blocks:
Nowadays concrete blocks are the best alternative for traditional burnt bricks. It allows us to construct high rise buildings with a long lifespan. It gives high strength and resistant to climatic conditions.
Soumyadeep Halder
the alternate building blocks which can used in place of ordinary building stones and bricks are given below
these are few alternative you can use instead of conventional brick.
Kuldeep Singh
A few alternative building block materials :
nikeetasharma
Fly ash bricks can be used in place of ordinary building stones and bricks which is a good one but the main defect is that fly ash bricks are regional.