About wall

Walls  types future and design concept

Function of walls

• To provide protection from weather animal
• To divide the areas
• Act as sound barriers
• Add firewalls to attenuate the spread of fire from one building unit to another
• Separate the interior space
• To improve the building appearance
• To provide privacy

Material for wall construction

• Timber brick concrete block reinforced concrete can be used for wall construction
• Good for wall construction duets durability duty and able to provide comfortable area
• Cengal is suitable to be used at hot and cold climate area
• Meranti can be used for all types of construction in the building
• Reinforced concrete used for precast concrete panel

Wall classification

There are two types of wall that is

A) load bearing wall

Able to carry the lord from above own weight and load from roof and transfer it to the foundation

B) non load bearing wall

 only carry their own weight

Load bearing wall

It can be exterior Volvo interior wall it brace from the roof to the floor 

• Precast concrete walls
• Retaining wall
• Masonry wall
• Pre panelized load bearing metal stud wall
• Engineering brick wall 115 mm into 225 mm
• Stone wall
• As the height of the building increased required thickness of wall and resulting stress on foundation wall also increase and use it to be un economical
• Able to carry other structure weight base beside own weight

• Removing a section of a load bearing wall to correct A pass through requires adding a new beam and columns to support the floor above

Precast concrete wall and load bearing wall

Pre panelized load bearing metal stud walls

Stone wall and load bearing wall

Precast concrete wall and load bearing wall

Masonry wall

Load bearing retaining wall non load bearing wall

• Now as interior wall doesn't carry other load then it is own load

Types of non load bearing walls

• Hollow concrete block
• Facade bricks 
• Hollow bricks 
• Brick wall (115mm,225mm)

Brick bonding

• Stretcher Bond
• English bond
• Racking Bond
• English graden wall Bond
• Common and American Bond
• Flemish garden wall bond 
• Herringbone bond 

Header: a brick which is laid in a way that only the short and is visible in the fall

Stretcher:  a brick which is laid in a way that allows only the longer side of the brick to be exposed

English bond

Alternative courses of headers and stretcher 1 header placed centrally above each stretcher  this is a very strong bond when the wall is one brick thick or thicker one of the strongest brickwork Bond patterns 

Stretcher Bond

Easiest bond to lay & minimise the amount of cutting required originally used for single brick wall now called one and half brick wall it become they abuse choice for cavity wall ea less cutting was required

Raking bond 

Herringbone and diagonal bonds can be effective within an exposed framed contraction or continent within registering bridge courses

English garden wall bond 

An alternative version of English bond with header courses being inserted at every 4th or 6th courses this is a crosspondingly worker Bond suitable for free standing wall