Comparison of brick wall construction method with light walls

Abstract

Wall is the element of the non-structural in buildings, single storey building, low-rise, and high-rise that serves as a counterweight and fastening the beams and column. Construction of other structures such as buildings, walls is a part that has developed over time. It is causing this development is to respond to the needs of construction quality, cost, and time of the construction. In this case there are two types of wall construction, red bricks wall which made of clay and other one is a light concrete bricks wall which made of cement, silica, sand and limestone. The purpose of this paper is to determine the method of wall construction is more efficient in terms of cost and time between methods of red bricks wall and light concrete bricks wall. The study was conducted using a survey method, and comparative literature. These results indicate that both methods have advantages and disadvantages of each other. Red bricks wall method is cheaper in the cost of the process while the light concrete bricks wall method much faster in the process.