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Walls:
Bricks | Blockwork
| Glass Block | Stone
| Earth | Lintels
| DPCs and Trays | Ventilation
+ Accessories | Timber Boarding
| Sheet Cladding | Insulation
| Concrete |
Bricks and
Brickwork
Organisations
and Associations
- Brick
Development Association
- UK organisation for brick manufacturers -publishes codes, standards
and guidance notes.
- British
Masonry Society -membership
society founded in 1986 that provides a forum for discussion
and disseminates research information relating to all aspects
of masonry in construction.
Manufacturers
- Baggeridge
Brick -leading manufacturer
of clay bricks and pavers with factories in Sedgley, Kingsbury,
Rudgwick, Hartlebury and Waresley.
- Bovingdon Brickworks -one of the few remaining brickmakers who can
still duplicate the intricate colours,shapes and sizes of bricks
made hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
- The Brick Business -independant brick manufacturer formed by the
merger of Ambion Brick and Chelwood Brick.merger.
- Coleford
-family owned brickworks producing hand thrown bricks and tiles.
- Errol
Brick -specialist brick
solutions including terracotta facing bricks and clay floor tiles,
manufactured in Perth, Scotland.
- Freshfield
Lane Brickworks -independant
brickworks, working with combinations of natural materials such
as Tunbridge Wells Sandstone and East Grinstead Clay, together
with Wadhurst Blue Clay.
- Hanson Brick
-manufacturer of quality facing bricks and clay pavers with over
200 different colours and textures from the product ranges of
Butterley, London and Desimpel. They also manufacture Rockclad
terracotta rainscreen cladding.
- Ibstock
Bricks -huge amount
of information, including a brick database and technical guides
online.
- Ibstock
Hathernware-Architectural
Terra Cotta bricks, cladding panels and ornamentation.
- Lamb's
handmade bricks -gauged
arches, terracotta, faience, complementary stone, terracotta
and faience throughout the UK and internationally.
- Bio
Bric -fast innovative
clay block system from Lime Green -also Mega Bric and Lintel
Bric, and Pose Bric Mortar.
- Michelmersh -group includes Blockleys, Charnwood,
Duntons, Michelmersh, Taperell Taylor bricks, paviors and roof
tiles.
- Northcot Brick
-traditional handmade and reclaimed bricks from Moreton in Marsh,
Gloucestershire.
- Phoenix Bricks
-an independent brick manufacturer operating from a single site
in North East Derbyshire five miles north of the Market town
of Chesterfield
- Reclaimed bricks
-a source of one of the UK's major reclaimed bricks and building
product suppliers.
- Tarmac -leading UK manufacturer of concrete
blocks, with products including Durox aircrete blocks and thin
joint blockwork, Toplite aircrete blocks, Hemelite lightweight
aggregate blocks Topcrete dense aggregate blocks. A major new
initiative is the "Topblock Takeback Scheme" which
helps to reduce blockwork waste and reduce the amount of material
sent to landfill, by taking back block waste for crushing and
recycling.
- Tyrone
Brick -facing bricks
from Ireland, arranged by texture.
- Wienerberger
-the world's largest clay brick and tile manufacturer, offering
clay facing bricks under the Terca and clay roofing tiles under
the Koramic brand.
- York Handmade Brick -based in Alne just North of York, they make
facing bricks, pavers, cobbles, terracotta floor tiles and wine
stackers.
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