CHAPTER 3: ANALYSIS
3.1 Brick Veneer
3.1.1 Brick Veneer - Material
Brick is an excellent material if you are concerned about protecting your home from termites, mold, fires, or other natural causes which could damage a home. It is mainly made out of two components clay sand shale. There are 6 crucial steps to creating a brick:
• Mining clay from the ground
• Grinding clay to fine powder
• Mixing clay with water
• Forming wet clay into desired brick shape
• Drying brick, and firming shape in a kiln Cite
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3.1.2 Brick Veneer - Cost
Due to the heaviness of brick, the cost of adding it to your home can be more expensive in comparison to different options. Individuals can consider a lighter brick in which continues to be visually appealing. Properly installing brick can be somewhat difficult for an unskilled individual. Brick installation usually requires a professional contractor to complete the job properly, which can also be costly. Brick is generally costlier to be shipped to a worksite as well, which adds to the overall price. • A brick costs between $4 and $6 per square foot 3.1.3 Brick Veneer - Environmental Impact
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After the clay is mined, it’s then mixed with water- another natural resource from the earth. Through the process of adding extremely high temperatures the clay is hardened into bricks. The process of making clay bricks is extremely harmful to the environment. The amount of fuel to dry the bricks makes it an expensive and harmful material. Furthermore, mining practices disrupt local ecology and often contaminate surrounding water sources. Despite this, it is argued that bricks are still a sustainable option because they have a very long-life expectancy before they need to be replaced.
A strength in the community system is the tight bound that is present within the community. Despite the neighborhood being run-down, the community is described as a close-knit family. Those who are against the development have formed the Brickville Community Benefits Alliance to voice their disapproval of the development. Those for the development have formed the group, Vision Brickville. Despite there being two groups, it shows that the community can unite together to support the causes that they support.
Throughout this mining process, a byproduct is created called chat. The chat is leftover rock and waste from mining that did not contain the desired materials. The chat was left on the site because the Bureau of Indian Affairs thought it could be of value to the Quapaw tribe (1). This product contains high levels of toxic lead and other harmful chemicals. It is estimated that there are 75 million tons (150 billion pounds) of chat piles remaining exposed to the environment as well as numerous flotation ponds that haven’t been taken into account (4).
Bricklayer’s Boy is a story about a father and son and their working lives. The Narrator, or son, grew up in a blue-collared household, with a father that was a bricklayer. By his early 20’s, his father already had a wife, a career, two sons and a house. His father was the son of an immigrant, and believed in working hard so that his sons could get white-collared jobs and have an easier life. The narrator had other ideas though, and decided to become a newspaper reporter. His father didn’t understand this decision because he expected him to make as much money as possible. When the narrator was offered his first job at a daily paper in Columbus, Ohio, his father said, “Why can’t you get a good job that pays something, like in advertising in the city, and write on the side?” “Advertising is lying,” the narrator replied, “ I wanna tell the truth.” His dad continued to push advertising in the weeks before he moved, until one night he came home with tape and bubble wrap and helped him pack to move.
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Concrete is a composite material used widely in the construction industry. Concrete is basically a mixture of cement, water, aggregates and admixture (sometimes). Cement is a fine gray powder that consists of oxidizes calcium, silicon and aluminum. The aggregate used is normally gravel, crushed stone or sand. Admixture is a solid or liquid substance that gives a certain characteristics of the concrete. The cement reacts with water chemically and binds the aggregates together through a process called hydration during hardening or curing of concrete. It means that water helps in the hardening of the concrete while the cement bind the aggregate and also react with water to form a solid mass.
Gypsum is quite useful and some interesting facts about it is that it can be added to certain breads and doughs as a calcium source or as a type of baking additive considering that it is 100% safe for consumption. It can be used as a fire retardant, be used like modeling clay for teeth replacements, and so much more. It is a versatile mineral and has been around for thousands of years. Throughout the years, more uses for it have been found and the material is being utilized even more as the years progress. (Gypsum: the "Magic" Mineral Indefinitely Recyclable,
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Though it has had many negative impacts on the environment in the past, mining is a vital industry completely necessary to our economy and lives. Nearly every item we use or encounter in our day to day lives is mined or contains mined products. Without the excavation of such materials things like computers, televisions, large building structures, electricity, and cars would not be possible. Virtually every technological and medical advance uses minded materials, without which millions would suffer. Some examples of minerals in the home include the telephone which is made from as many as 42 different minerals, including aluminum, beryllium, coal, copper, gold, iron, silver, and talc. A television requires over 35 different minerals, and more than 30 minerals are needed to make a single personal computer. Without boron, copper, gold and quartz, your digital alarm clock would not work. Every American uses an average 47,000 pounds of newly mined materials each year, which is higher than all other countries with the exception of Japan, which is a staggering figure representative of our dependence and need for mined minerals. Coal makes up more than half of nation’s electricity, and will continue to be the largest electrical supplier into 2020 & accounting for some 95 percent of the nation's fossil energy reserves – nine of every ten short-tons of coal mined in the United States is used for electricity generation. As the population of the world grows more mineral resources must be exploited through mining in order to support the rising demand for such products. Though it may present a hazard to the environment and those physically located nears the mines, the materials extracted from mines...
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