Timbercrete

BRICKS, PAVERS & CLADDING BY TIMBERCRETE

What is Timbercrete?
 Bricks and cladding panels are typically large and light. Construction alternatives include single skin
blocks,pavers, veneer or double brick, and wall panels.
 Our bricks have domestic, industrial, commercial and landscape applications.
Why consider Bricks, Pavers and Cladding by Timbercrete?
 Timbercrete’s thermal insulation properties out-perform many masonry products by up to 6 times.
 It’s made from timber waste products and actually traps the carbon that would otherwise end up as
greenhouse gas.
 Timbercrete bricks, pavers & cladding offer the highest possible fire resistance in Australia
 It inherits some very unique qualities which make it outstanding among other building products.
These outstanding qualities include:
 Significantly improved environmental benefits
 A significantly improved insulation value (R) when compared to traditional clay and concrete bricks, blocks
and panels.
 Improved engineering diversity, due its lighter semi flexible quality. Lighter weight (2.5 times lighter than
concrete or clay).
 Improved fire rating compared to concrete, clay, timber or steel.
FRL240/240/240 (at 190mm thick). Exceeding the highest possible fire rating..
 One man’s solution to build an affordable and environmentally-friendly home for his family has turned
into a much sought after construction material – Timbercrete.

Timbercrete is also far less porous than most concrete blocks and won’t wash away or erode when exposed to the
elements like mud bricks. Having said that, it’s by no means waterproof, and water will start to penetrate through
the surface over prolonged exposure to rain if the external walls are not sealed.
Glass

Glass can be used to recycle other materials. Believe it or not, glass is made from liquid sand. You can make glass
by heating ordinary sand (which is mostly made of silicon dioxide) until it melts and turns into a liquid.

If it's a modern building, your office or school might be a mini glass cathedral; we think of glass as brittle and
fragile, but toughen it the right way and you can make walls, floors, roofs, and staircases from it; shops show their
wares through huge, laminated panels, polished to perfection. Glass is one of those magic materials we absolutely
take for granted; everywhere and nowhere—"invisibly transparent," so we don't even notice that it's there!
Bamboo frame

First of all, from the roughly 1500 known bamboo species on the planet, only a hand-full of them can be used for
construction.
Every bamboo species has it's own structural and mechanical properties. Most are hollow, some are solid, there
are bamboos that grow up to 130 feet tall and 9 inches in diameter and there are bamboos that grow only 7 inches
tall and 0.07 inches in diameter. So the first criteria for building a quality and long lasting bamboo home is the
species.
Our goal isn't to bash bamboo construction because bamboo is one of the most sustainable building materials on
the planet that provides earthquake resistant structures!
However, I prefer to offer professional and realistic advice (based on our hands on experiences) rather than writing
ideological sales pitches (often based on "book" knowledge). In my opinion, low cost housing and bamboo
construction aren't synonyms. Because I assume that most bamboo enthusiasts are aiming for sustainable
architecture and alternative home construction with the same quality standards as a traditional house! Cheap
disaster relief houses for the 3rd world are a different topic all together.
Bamboo construction
House made entirely of bamboo
Bamboo can be utilized as a building material as for scaffolding, bridges and houses. Bamboo, like true wood, is a
naturalcomposite material with a high strength-to-weight ratio useful for structures.[1] Bamboo has a
higher compressive strengththan wood, brick or concrete and a tensile strength that rivals steel.[2][3]
In its natural form, bamboo as a construction material is traditionally associated with the cultures of South Asia,
East Asia and the South Pacific, to some extent in Central and South America, and by extension in the aesthetic
of Tiki culture. Bamboo has also long been used as scaffolding; the practice has been banned in China for buildings
over six stories, but is still in continuous use for skyscrapers in Hong Kong.[6] In the Philippines, the nipa hut is a
fairly typical example of the most basic sort of housing where bamboo is used; the walls are split and woven
bamboo, and bamboo slats and poles may be used as its support. In Japanese architecture, bamboo is used
primarily as a supplemental and/or decorative element in buildings such as fencing, fountains, grates and gutters,
largely due to the ready abundance of quality timber.[7]

Jalousie Window
Jalousies are installed within a movable adjustable mechanism which positions all jalouises into any parallel
position with respect to each other. [3]

TIMBERCRETE - made from timber waste products and actually traps the carbon. Save energy for heating and
cooling, has excellent sound absorption and acoustic qualities, highest possible fire resistance. It is bullet proof
when fired.
BAMBOO FRAME- sustainable building material, low cost. reinforcement for concrete
GLASS- Glass is such a popular material in our homes because it has all kinds of really useful properties. Apart from
being transparent, it's inexpensive to make, easy to shape when it's molten, reasonably resistant to heat when it's
set, chemically inert (so a glass jar doesn't react with the things you put inside it), and it can be recycled any
number of times.
JALOUSIE WINDOW-
 The first benefit of jalousie (crank or louvered) window is a larger opening area.
 Greater Airflow- A jalousie window benefits from being able to open from top to bottom (when the slats
are fully horizontal). The entire window area is therefore utilized in jalousie windows causing greater
airflow and improved air circulation and quality.
 jalousie windows makes for a larger viewing area
 Another jalousie window benefit is the ability to remove and replace the glass slats
 Jalousie windows are also cost-effective. Why can they be less expensive than traditional windows? Over
time, if a window is damaged, only the slats that have been damaged need replacing, not the entire
window and frame.