PUBLICATIONS

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS, KPI’S 2011

The brick industry established key performance indicators in 2002 to assess its progress in matching the targets and aspirations defined in its own sustainability strategy. Performance is monitored by returns submitted annually by members of the Brick Development Association.

WINTER 2011

Download Brick Bulletin Winter 2011 This issue includes: Domestic revival: Panter Hudspith, Proctor & Matthews PRP, RCKa, Re-Format, and Weston Williamson profiled Learning from Lutyens: Hopkins Architects in London Peter Behrens’ Hoechst headquaters in Frankfurt First Person: John Tuomey; plus Brick Awards 2011 Air cooled: Perforated brick facades by Munkenbeck Brick Awards 2011 winners

BRICK: BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE FOR THE FUTURE

Building a Sustainable Resource for the Future is Key to driving and highlighting the efforts of the Brick Industry. It is vital that we reach our carbon emission targets by 2016, and with total dedication and involvement from all our members we were able to publish the statistics which award brick as one of the most sustainable materials to manufacturer and use in the UK. Our commitment to further our efforts in sustainability issues allows brick to remain one of the most specified materials whilst ensuring growth for our future.

AUTUMN 2011

This issue includes:

Classical Tradition: ADAM Architecture profiled
Cottrell and Vermeulen at Brentwood School in Essex
Kay Fisker’s Dronningegarden housing in Copenhagen
Arkitektene’s Alfaset Crematorium in Oslo
Thomas Bo Jensen’s experimental student workshop
Technical: prototype freeform masonary vaulting

SUMMER 2011

This issue includes: Engineered for success: Ramboll UK profiledNPS Tchoben Voss NHow music hotel in Berlin Double take: Mies van der Rohe’s Ester and Lange Villas FCB Studios in Chelsea, O’Donnell and Tuomey in Belfast First Person: New BDA chief executive Simon Hay Technical: prefabricated brick panels in Switzerland

MASONRY DESIGN FOR DISPROPORTIONATE COLLAPSE

Revised Building Regulations for England & Wales, related, in part, to the structural design of buildings to resist accidental damage, have recently been published together with the relevant Approved Document giving guidance on accidental damage design.

SPRING 2011

This issue includes: Four thought: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris profiled Michael Graves’ museum of motoring in The Hague Half century: Louis Kahn’s Indian Institute of Management Niall McLaughlin’s Alzheimer’s Centre in Dublin First Person: Mumbai’s iStudio and its Brick House Overcladding in brick: Duggan Morris in detail

WINTER 2010

This issue features: Jonathan Sergison on Mario Botta’s brick works Peter Kulka’s Leopold-Hoesch-Museum extension Jeroen Geurst on Lutyens’ Great War cemeteries First Person: Cian Deegan of TAKA Architects Bolles & Wilson’s Helmond Library Structural masonry and the new Eurocodes

AUTUMN 2010

Download Brick Bulletin Autumn 2010 This issue includes: External expressions: Allies and Morrison profiled China’s first Passivhaus at Shanghai’s Expo 2010 Silence speaks: David Richmond at Douai Abbey Edward Cullinan Architects on Clink Street First Person: Richard Hill of Richard Griffiths Architects Gerald Lynch on gauged brickwork

SUMMER 2010

Download Brick Bulletin Summer 2010 This issue includes: Beatrice Galilee on China’s young brick builders Studio Gang recycles a Chicago stables building Peter Blundell Jones on Lewerentz’ Klippan church Panter Hudspith’s brick tour-de-force in Southwark First Person: Alan Pert of Nord Architecture Technical: designing brick diaphragm walls