Brick, Stone & Masonry: market research reports

There are many benefits to employing brickwork, or masonry, including the fact that the use of brick and stone can increase the thermal mass of a building as well as the fact that brick will not require painting and, therefore, give the structure a reduced lifecycle cost. Both of these options make brick or stone a more sustainable building material, especially when used with lime mortar. In these cases, the lifetime of the building can be more than 500 years. Bricks are produced in highly energy-efficient tunnel kilns, and are 100% recyclable, adding to their green appeal. Though masonry has great compressive strength, or vertical loads, it has much less tensile strength in regards to stretching and twisting if unreinforced. Tensile strength can be strengthened, though, by building masonry piers, or simply thickening the wall. Engineering and material sciences are areas which can improve the applicability of masonry to global construction.