Brick

**What are **** they made of? ** ** The raw material for the manufacture of brick is the clay. ** What **** are they used for? ** ** The bricks used in building fences, walls and partitions. It is mainly used to build walls or partitions. ** How many types of brick are there? ** ** Exist seven types of bricks: Perforated, Solid, tile, “aplantillado”, Hollow, face sight and refractory brick. ** ** What is the meaning of //bricklaying techniques//? ** ** Bricklaying is a trade that specialises in building and repairing walls, floors, partitions, fireplaces, chimneys, as well as other structures with brick or concrete block. A bricklayer may use their skills for residential or large commercial development projects. Additionally, bricklayers may also refurbish brickwork on restoration projects. ** Describe 2 brick laying technique  ** ** 1. **** In bricklaying a large strong steel trowel is used for spreading mortar and chopping bricks to shape. ** What are their Advantech and disadvantages? **  **and their resisting to fire and wather **<span style="color: rgb(227, 108, 10);">
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 * 2. **** When a pile of brick reaches a height of 4 feet, it must be tapered back 1 inch in every foot of height above the 4-foot level **
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 * <span style="color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> One of the advantages of masonry walls, is that they have an acceptable capacity. So if it is built only on the ground floor will don’t need to add an additional structure. Another advantage is that they serve as thermal insulation using a brick thick, also serve as acoustic insulation **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Among the disadvantages, we could mention the loss of useful space for the thickness than typically have the bricks, also the aesthetic aspect and the functionality when is necessary repair plumbing and pipes. ** **.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(102, 51, 0); font-size: 130%;">//I agree with Gladys, the brick is a wonderful material used through history, than has allowed build resistant buildings, because the brick is a material resistant to water and fire so that structures built with this material are quite firm and strong. But it is also true that the brick is a material that requires a technique to use and requires constant maintenance.//

1. Comparison and contrast <span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brick __**compares**__ favorably with stone as a structural material for its fire-and-weather resisting qualities and for the ease of production, transportation, and laying <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(102, 51, 0); font-size: 130%;">2. Description <span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bricks may be used in construction only in conjunction with mortar, since the unit is __**too small, too light, and too irregular**__ to be stabilized by weight. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(102, 51, 0); font-size: 120%;">3. Exemplification <span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">for example, wedge-shaped bricks are sometimes employed in arch construction and bricks with rounded faces in columns.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">4. Cause/Effect <span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Special shapes can be produced by molding to meet particular structural or expressive requirements <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(102, 51, 0); font-size: 120%;"> 5. Chronology <span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Employed throughout the Middle Ages, brick grained greater popularity from the 16th. Century on, particularly in northern Europe.

<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0); font-size: 130%;"> How has brick been used in Piazza del Campo?
 * <span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brick in piazza de campo is used to give uniformity to the buildings surrounding the square, and also to create a relationship between them, but everyone with their particulars characteristic than distinguish their different uses like cafes, Stores, etc, which finally gives more importance to the big central square Piazza de campo. **