Building Houses with Prefabricated Bricks
Building houses with prefabricated bricks offers advantages such as short construction periods, high efficiency, and environmental friendliness. Details are as follows:
Significant reduction in construction period: Modular construction breaks down buildings into independent modules. As a type of prefabricated component, prefabricated bricks can be manufactured in factories and then transported to construction sites for assembly. For example, at the CSCEC Hailong Intelligent Construction Industrial Park in Shenzhen, Guangdong, ceilings, walls, and other components of houses are made in the factory. Compared to traditional construction, the construction period can be shortened by more than 60%. In a public housing project in Shenzhen, Guangdong, five residential buildings nearly 100 meters high were assembled from 6,028 concrete modules, with the completion and delivery period reduced from 2.5 to 3 years to just 1 year. There is also a case of a prefabricated house where the main structure was completed in just 14 days. Using prefabricated components for assembly, 5-ton foundation piles are fixed with base plates, and mortise-and-tenon joints are used for rapid connection between beams. Stairs are hoisted like building blocks, followed by laying a 5-centimeter-thick floor slab, and finally grouting all component gaps, fully demonstrating the speed advantage of building houses with prefabricated bricks.
Reduction in on-site labor: Taking the public housing project in Shenzhen, Guangdong as an example, using prefabricated bricks and other prefabricated components for assembly reduces on-site labor by about 50%. This is because most components are already made in the factory, and on-site work mainly involves assembly, eliminating the need for a large amount of manpower for traditional bricklaying and pouring operations, thus reducing the demand for on-site workers.
Significant environmental benefits: Building houses with prefabricated bricks can significantly reduce noise, dust, and other nuisance factors at construction sites. During traditional construction, operations such as cement mixing and bricklaying generate a large amount of noise and dust, affecting the surrounding environment and residents' lives. However, since prefabricated bricks are produced in factories, on-site construction procedures are reduced, thereby lowering the generation of these pollutants and being more environmentally friendly.
Industry recognition: There is a case in Burbage, Leicestershire, UK, where a private development project was built using prefabricated bricks and hollow block walls. The house won the Hanson UK Award and the first prize in the 'Innovative Use of Bricks and Clay Products' category of the Brick Development Association Awards, indicating that building houses with prefabricated bricks has been recognized by the industry in terms of innovation and quality.
