Waste bottles for construction? Yes, it is difficult to think of a bottle as a brick. But a mud-filled bottle is as strong as a brick and whatever you can do with a brick, you can do with a bottle too..Plus it has got lots of advantages too...
This project was done as a part of our college activity. The man behind this innovative idea is a german named Andreas Froese,who is also the founder of 'ECO-TEC' .
OFFICIAL WEBSITE : www.eco-tecnologia.com
About ECO-TEC
* Found in 2001 by Andreas Froese Germen citizen and its head quarters is at Honduras Central America.
* ECO-TEC has done more than 50 eco friendly projects at Honduras, Columbia, Bolivia.
* ECO-TEC has experience working with Govt, Non-Govt and International organization.
* ECO-TEC has won lot of environmental awards for innovation.
* Developed technology to build with Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles which helps to reuse plastic bottles and avoid plastic menace.
* Developed technology to build water tanks with PET bottles.
Being a student of Architecture, I was able to be a part of this innovative construction with Plastic Bottles.
Building with Bottles :
This is an effective solution for reusing the plastic. Bottles have the following advantages over bricks and other construction materials.
1. Low cost - You know how much a bottle costs!
2. Non-Brittle - (Unlike bricks)
3. Absorbs abrupt shock loads - Since they are not brittle,there can take up heavy loads without failure.
4. Bio climatic
5. Re-usable
6. Less construction material
7. Easy to build
8. Green Construction
How to Construct Houses with Plastic Bottles !!
Bottles, bottles everywhere!
When you make a clay brick, the time and the energy used right from mixing the clay to baking it in the kiln and taking into account the firewood used for that, you will see that the bottle brick is far more energy-efficient.
The technology also reduces the carbon emission that happens during the baking of an ordinary brick . The heat generation from cement factories can also be reduced as this technology uses only five percent cement. The foundation for the entire construction is obtained from building waste and so the mountains from which granite is blasted out can be saved too..
PET Bottle can last as long as 300 years (undoubtedly longer than the cement used to bind the bottles together in the walls!).
The following picture is of an ecological house constructed in Honduras using some 8,000 PET bottles, in the process freeing up an estimated 12 cubic meters (m3) in the local landfill.
[Some houses] feature a living roof (sometimes called a green roof) of sod and turf. Such roofs not only have aesthetic appeal, but tend to insulate the house better than conventional roofs, lowering heating and cooling costs. They are also cheaper than conventional roofs.
When wet, the 102 square meter (m2), living roof of the casa ecol can weigh as much as 30 metric tons (Mt, toneladas). The PET bottle walls can support the weight.
Bottles, bottles everywhere!
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Jul 13, 2010. 10:41 AMspark master says:
See old "Mother Earth News" chord wood house there is also a beer can house and they used other stuff as well. benefit of empty sealed up bottle is it becomes an insulator.
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Jul 12, 2010. 1:16 PMspark master says:
Everything old is NEW again "The Mother Earth News" had articles on this type of construction back in the 1980's (maybe 70's) I do like the instructable though. If I can find the issues where they show it I will let you know the year and issue. People used Chord Wood and bottles and cans and tires. All in an attempt to reuse the unreusable. thanks for posting this, I will visit their website sparkie
(more) www.instructables.com/id/New-Innovation-in-Construction-using-Waste-Plastic/
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