Design Services
Glass Block Constructions offer professional advice on how to achieve the ideal glass block feature for any commercial or residential development.
Residential Design Codes
Western Australia has seen significant changes to the way homes are built with the trend for larger homes, especially two storey homes, on smaller blocks of land.
The issue of privacy, both visual and acoustic has become paramount, and the R-codes have been supplemented to cater for the new building trends.
Glass blocks enables your house design to conform with the Element 8 – Privacy of the R-codes, without sacrificing light and insulation.
Glass Block Construction supply quality Seves glass blocks manufactured in accordance to or better than DIN standard 18175.
Physical Properties
Resistance to pressure across entire cross section of square blocks to Average = 7.5 MN/m2 Smallest individual value = 6.0 MN/m2.
Although Glass Blocks are not Load Bearing when installed in vertical panels, they are trafficable when paving blocks are installed in horizontal panels.
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Windows Energy Rating
Glass Blocks installed using the Ezylay System have been independently rated and have achieved a 4 star heating and 3 star cooling assessment.
