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Reusable Brick Walls for the Construction Industry
by Falko Schoklitsch
published at 21.05.2026
Research
Reusable Brick Walls for the Construction Industry
A team from TU Graz has developed a prefabricated brick wall that can be dismantled and re-used without being destroyed. This reduces emissions significantly and conserves valuable resources.
The brick walls can be dismantled and rebuilt without being damaged. Here, the building is being rebuilt following dismantling. Image source: IBPSC – TU Graz
The construction sector still has some way to go in terms of reducing the consumption of resources and greenhouse gas emissions. One of these relates to the construction waste produced during the demolition of buildings. Buildings used for rather short periods of between ten and 20 years, such as consumer markets, have a negative impact on the balance sheet. In the Re-Use Ziegelwand project, a team from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), together with the biggest Austrian brick producer wienerberger, has now developed a solution that decouples the service life of the building materials from that of the building. The centrepiece is industrially prefabricated brick wall elements that are not joined by conventional mortar joints but by using reversible joint solutions. This means they can be re-used several times after a building has been dismantled.
60 per cent CO2 savings over three life cycles
“Bricks are very high-quality building materials and their production is very resource-intensive. It therefore offers...