Masonry construction is one of the oldest methods of creating built structures. However, the brick wall has changed considerably since the first fired clay bricks were laid nearly 8,000 years ago. To ...

One year on from the completion of the UK’s first cavity wall, the International Passivhaus conference takes place this Saturday (28 May 2011) in Innsbuck. Green Building Store’s Bill Butcher, project ...

Our self build expert Mark Stevenson talks through all the mistakes people make when installing insulation in cavity walls ...

Adam covers home improvements and mobile networks, splitting his time investigating topics from bathrooms to phone contracts. He was shortlisted at the BSME Talent Awards 2024. In this article Is your ...

The Green Building Store is building its Passivhaus home with cavity walls - not the usual choice but one that works at Denby Dale As far as we know, the Denby Dale house will be the first Passivhaus ...

A variation of conventional masonry cavity wall construction that could accommodate high levels of insulation and a truss rafter roof were selected after cost analysis with the contractor. The ...

In cavity-wall construction, stainless steel is now exclusively used to manufacture wall ties, restraint fixings, masonry support systems and windposts. As the trend towards higher specification and ...

We have cavity walls in our home and I’ve heard we can get insulation to fill them for free from our energy supplier. I’m keen to do this, as it should make a difference to our energy bills, but I’ve ...

In contrast, modern brick veneer cavity walls anchor a single wythe of face brick across an air space, typically two to four inches wide, to a backup material. Part of a drainage system that includes ...