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The Brick Bud
Our innovative design ensures your team are safe and compliant
The Brick Bud
Here in the UK, we suffer from major issues with walls blowing down through wind. As a result, the construction industry is losing more than 35 million bricks per annum. To put this into perspective, this number of bricks would build approximately 3,500 houses. Throughout the industry, we know that these figures will continue to rise in the coming years as the government plans to build another 100,000 houses per annum on top of the already provisioned 189,000.
The Brick Bud is the only tried and tested product that will prevent walls from falling down due to high winds. We have achieved this by bracing brick walls at set intervals, subject to height and wind speeds tested with an FEA (Finite Eliminate Analysis ).
Gone are the days of the scrap timber methods that have no tests and no calculations carried out by a TWC, say hello to The Brick Bud.
All tests carried out by an independent engineer and a temporary works designer.
Our Mission...
Brick Bud is more than a convenient addition to any building site. The Brick Bud concept came at the expense of a lasting accident after a brick wall falling in high winds. As a result, The Brick Bud key values are:
- Reduce and prevent accidents, near misses, and fatalities
- Optimised Production
- Improve Economic Impact
- Contribute to achieving Net Zero
Product Specifications
The Brick Bud main vertical part stands at 2 meters in length and has a diagonal length of 1.7 meters and is 1125mm from the outside vertical to the end of the foot and when fully extended is 1280 mm enough room to fit on a scaffolding.
The full system is 51mm x 51mm box section and has 6 locking nuts. Each locking nut is 10m x 100mm with two locking ball pins 8m x 93mm.
The GRP Brick Bud is light, robust and takes seconds to assemble and disassemble and can be done by a single person.
Carbon Footprint
We emit 25.6kg’s of CO2 into the atmosphere from heating 60 bricks (1 sqm) in a kiln. And we know that 35.6 million bricks wasted we would need to produce an additional 3o,170 cubic meters of cement resulting in an additional 7.3 million kg’s CO2 in addition to the 15 million kg’s of CO2 generated from the brick kilns. In addition to this, to produce one 25kg bag of cement, we are emitting 17kg’s of CO2 into the atmosphere. To rebuild the walls blown down we would need 600,000 cubic meters of cement. That would add an additional 593,333.333 kg’s of CO2 on top of the 15 million kg’s emitted from the creation of the bricks.
