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Modern construction materials - HOLLOW GLASS BRICKS

Thanks to their three-dimensional structure they constitute fantastic and durable construction material, making it possible to achieve stunning and remarkable architectural solutions. Interesting colour combinations, textures and play of lights allow creation of original interiors hence they are more and more frequently used for building partition walls in houses offices or formal rooms. Hollow glass bricks are also used for building counters, platforms, stands, floors as well as inside elements of shower walls and enclosures. They are resistant to dampness and can perfectly replace conventional tiles. Be it crystal white or other tint, you will always be able to create your dream bathroom filled with colourful light seeping through the glass hollow bricks. Being a good thermal insulator, the hollow glass bricks find their application as a light source along traffic routes, garages and other fragments of external walls. The applied reinforcement enables building large surfaces which are difficult to force.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Standard dimensions: 19*19*8 - 24*24*8,

Norm for walls: DIN 4242

Norm for structures (K - coefficient ): K = 3.0 W/m2K

Light transmittance: - transparency: 75%
- golden/tinted
: 50%

Acoustic performance: 41 dB

Impact resistance: 8,8 Nm

Compression resistance: 7.5 N/mm2

Hollow glass bricks can be installed with the use of special plastic crosses enabling aesthetic and precise brick laying helping to retain the same spaces for grout.

Calculating the surface area of glass brick walls

While calculating the wall surface area, one should multiply the number of bricks in width or height adding 10 cm to every brick; horizontal or vertical joint. Additionally, it is necessary to add the size of a rim surrounding the whole wall: usually 80 cm. Thickness of this rim should correspond to the brick thickness. The concrete rim may be partially hidden within reveal forming so called U-profile. It creates an inseparable part of the hollow glass brick wall, being a connection between the existing building wall and a glass wall under construction. It also fulfils a condition for structural fixing of hollow glass brick walls.

Using 80 cm thick hollow glass bricks, the maximum wall surface should vary between 15 and 18 m2 with the maximum side length between 5 and 6 metres

BINARIO system

BINARIO is a collection of standardised elements which used in many combinations offer virtually limitless construction possibilities performing, at the same time, three functions:

  • keeping hollow glass brick in the desired placed before and after mortar application
  • protecting against smudges while filling with mortar
  • decorative function – replace joints

Advantages of "binario" system:

  • significantly simplifies structure,
  • notably reduces installation costs,
  • enables building of large structures,
  • enables replacement of one or several bricks,
  • joints on both sides of the profiled structure have the same thickness,
  • window and door installation possible directly onto the wall structure,
  • easy to wash and keep clean,
  • introduces high aesthetic standards in places of its application

Usage of plastic in the system minimises low temperature transmission through the external structures, isolating concrete frame which joins the glass hollow bricks.

We ensure full technical and commercial support; we provide assistance in carrying out projects exploiting latest solutions in the field of hollow glass bricks.



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