POTW Archive Product of the Week by Interstate Brick
| Product of the Week by Interstate Brick |
| Wednesday, 27 July 2011 09:45 |
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Atlas™ - Big Brick, Small Footprint When it comes to conservation, nothing else stacks up!
 
Interstate Brick Products include Atlas Structural Bricks manufactured up to 16 inches in length and engineered to use bricks' high compressive strengths, form and function. Higher strengths permit taller, thinner walls that can withstand earthquakes, hurricane force winds, and fire and are also easily integrated with our other products. Atlas Bricks are designed and detailed similar to conventional CMU in dimension and strengths. Atlas Brick features low embodied energy and low embodied carbon with a life cycle double most other materials.
Atlas Brick encourage building reuse and lower the cost of brick construction by providing structure, eliminating backup support, reducing structural costs, lowering energy costs, and reducing construction labor. Atlas Brick provide several thermal advantages. It reduces peak heating and cooling loads through thermal lag and mass energy storage and can be used as a mass wall in Passive Solar design.
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