Brick Facades. Correct Technical Solutions and Examples of Successful Realization

Reasons for the statistically low quality of brick facades designed in the 2000s are described. The list of impacts on the brick facing of multilayered walls with floor-by-floor support, accounting of which is not prescribed by regulations, but which have had a direct effect on the integrity of the brick facade facing is presented. Recommendations to reduce the influ- ence of these impacts on facing layers are made. The need and method for accounting of the output of initial moisture from the inner layers of walls in the first seasons of operation are described. An overview of the technical solutions, the implementation of which provides the trouble-free operation of brick facades of buildings with a bearing frame is done. The classi- fication of suspended facade systems which are finished with stone masonry is presented; examples of the successful realization of brick facades with due regard for all the require- ments which became mandatory from 2012 are also presented.

G.I. GRINFEL’D¹, Engineer,
A.A. VISHNEVSKIJ², Candidate of Sciences (Engineering),
P.P. PASTUSHKOV³, Candidate of Sciences (Engineering),
A.N. KOZLOV¹, Engineer 

¹ LSR. Stenovye, ООО (40 a, Oktjabr’skaja Embankment, Sankt-Peterburg, 193091, Russian Federation) 
² Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsi (19, Mira Street, Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation) 
³ Scientific-Research Institute of Building Physics of the Russian Academy architecture and construction sciences (21, Lokomotivniy Driveway, Moscow, 127238, Russian Federation)

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