Brickwall construction / Intan Najiha Mohd Latif

Bricks are regarded as the ultimate standardized component and it is ideally suited to the production of customized solutions in building, particularly for the external walls of the housing and for a wide range of other larger building types. Facing brickworks provides a visually attractive and durable external building envelope. A wall is a structure and a surface that defines an area. A wall carries a load and also provides security, shelter, or soundproofing. The purpose of the wall in the building is to support the roof, floors, and ceiling. Walls are to enclose a space as part of a building envelope along with a roof to give building form and also to provide shelter and security. A brick wall is a vertical element of construction that is made of bricks and mortar. A brick wall is used to form the external walls of buildings, parapets, internal partition, freestanding walls, and retaining walls. Brickwork is masonry constructed with bricks and mortar by a bricklayer. Course is a term for the rows of bricks that are laid on top of one another to form a structure such as a brick wall. This report will discuss the brick masonry construction of the building. This report was prepared for the construction of 8 Conlay, a mixed-use development consisting of 3 tower blocks, i.e 5 levels of basements and ten levels of podium, with 61-story serviced apartments (Tower A), 56-story serviced apartments (Tower B), and 72-story Hotel and Hotel Suite Strata (Tower C) owned by Damai City Sdn Bhd. The objective of this report is to analyze the construction of the brick wall and how it is carried out on site. After that, it is also to investigate the handling and storage of materials in brickwall construction. This report also determines the time that has been taken to construct the brickwall on one level.