Ecological Brick Manufactured with Addition of Ceramic Waste

Abstract

The lack and reduction of extracting natural resources has become real due to environmental legislation. As the construction industry is highly dependent of raw materials more sustainable choices are mandatory. The costbenefit required alternatives. Aiming at the benefits to the environment with the reduction of clay consumption, this work proposes an exploratory study on the production of unburned bricks with construction and demolition ceramic waste. The construction and demolition waste used was composed solely of ceramic brick remains, being crushed and sieved until reaching the desired granulometry to start the manufacturing process. Among three different properties, the bricks that obtained the best performance were those that incorporate higher content of construction and demolition ceramic waste. (c) 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.