Demolition and filtered legacy waste as a resource in the manufacturing of Fired bricks and its optimization

Abstract

Brick is the most widely used and oldest type of building material in the history of the construction industry. It is considered the mother of all building and construction materials due to its physical, chemical, environmentally friendly, aesthetic, and mineralogical properties. Brick production is around 1,500 billion tonnes per year on a global scale, and Asia accounts for 87% of all fired bricks manufactured in worldwide. India is the second biggest producer of bricks in the world, accounting for around 13% of total output. Brick manufacturing uses up a significant amount of one of the world's most valuable natural resources: fertile agricultural soil. The manufacture of bricks requires 3 kg of soil for each brick, totaling 720 billion kilograms of fertile soil each and every year. Waste management and resource utilisation in the construction and building materials industries is currently receiving a lot of attention.