Recycling bricks
Recycling bricks
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I'm doing an investigation of an old abandoned, large, multi-story facility. The floors and roofs are wood framed, and the walls are multiwythe brick. The floors and roofs are completely shot, and cannot be reused. The brick walls are also in very poor condition. Basically the building has to be demolished before someone gets hurt.
Instead of knocking it down and sending it to a landfill, is there anything one can do with the remaining bricks that are in good condition? It seems like going through the rubble and picking out the good bricks is too labor intensive (and expensive). Crushing the bricks up would be easy, but what uses does crushed up brick have? None that I can think of!
Instead of knocking it down and sending it to a landfill, is there anything one can do with the remaining bricks that are in good condition? It seems like going through the rubble and picking out the good bricks is too labor intensive (and expensive). Crushing the bricks up would be easy, but what uses does crushed up brick have? None that I can think of!






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LEED projects that are historic in nature would be very interested in re-using clay brick, especially in the locale that the reclaimed brick is produced.
Size color and texture is unique to individual brickyards and are not easily reproduced. My firm just completed a project refitting a 100 year old fire station that used reclaimed brick from a local but now defunct brickyard and it turn out very well. The clay had a purple-ish hue and could not be reproduced without access to the clay site where the original brick was excavated.
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