An assembly supports external masonry veneer. A bracket mounts to a load bearing wall support structure. A shelf angle has a horizontal leg that defines a shelf for the veneer, and an upstanding leg supported by mounting brackets that secure the assembly to the wall structure. The horizontal shelf is segmented. The back of the shelf angle flexes between the segments to allow the shelf angle to follow the shape of a curve wall. The shelf angle is secured to the mounting brackets with locking clips. The mounting brackets may be channels. They may have lower abutments. The abutments may extend rearwardly. An insulator may be placed between the back and structure. The mounting bracket may have lightening holes. The lightening holes may be in a framework array including alternating diagonal struts. A low thermal conductivity coating may be applied to the bracket.

A slip brick arrangement for use in a façade cladding system comprises a slip brick and a spacer element (20c). The slip brick comprises at least one rail-engaging groove to engage with a brick-retaining rail to be provided. The spacer element (20c) comprises a main spacer body (22c) to be positioned inside the rail-engaging groove. The main spacer body (22c) comprises a protrusion (32c) to hinder sliding of the spacer element (20c) towards the brick-retaining rail. A variant of the spacer element (20c) is made from an unitary sheet providing a main spacer body (22c) and an arm (24) extending from the main spacer body (22c) to engage in the rail-engaging groove, wherein the main spacer body (22c) comprises a lanced portion (28) providing the protrusion (32c). The spacer element (20c) helps to retain a slip brick in an intended position.

An object of the present invention is to provide a building large porcelain panel that prevents the efflorescence.

As the solutions, a building large porcelain panel according to the present invention is formed by kneading a raw material formulation containing, as a main material, a refractory aggregate, a glassy raw material, and cement, and subjecting the raw material formulation to molding and then firing, wherein the building large porcelain panel has a Na.sub.2O content of 1 mass% or less in an entire chemical-component composition of the building large porcelain panel fired. In addition, the building large porcelain panel has a Na2O content of 1% or less and containing 0.5 to 7% of BaO and 0.5 to 8% of B.sub.2O.sub.3 (12% or less of the BaO and the B.sub.2O.sub.3) at mass-based chemical component values.

A support base, a tile joint and a method of attaching tiles to a wall structure. The support base includes a gripper arrangement protruding from the front surface. The gripper arrangement includes a first locking part arranged to connect the tile to the support base, and a second form locking part arranged to connect mortar to the support base.

[Object] To provide a wall material and a wall-material building structure that are suitable for achieving high water resistance in the wall-material building structure.

[Solution] A wall material X of the present invention has a surface-side joint portion 10 and a rear-side joint portion 20. A first resin film 31 is provided on at least one of an end surface 11a of the surface-side joint portion 10 and an end surface 21 of the rear-side joint portion 20. A second resin film 32 is provided on at least one of an extension surface 11b and an extension surface 22b. At a splice part where the surface-side joint portion 10 of one wall material X and the rear-side joint portion 20 of another wall material X are spliced together in a first direction D1, the end surfaces 11a and 21 and the first resin film 31 are disposed such that the end surfaces 11a and 21 face each other while a gap between the end surfaces 11a and 21 is filled with at least the first resin film 31, and the extension surfaces 11b and 22b and the second resin film 32 are disposed such that the extension surfaces 11b and 22b face each other while a gap between the extension surfaces 11b and 22b is filled with at least the second resin film 32. A wall-material building structure Y of the present invention is formed by using such a wall material X.

An architectural enclosure comprising a plurality of interwoven flexible rods (10) forming a lattice of first rods (11) parallel to each other attached to the structural element (60) and of second rods (12) parallel to each other orthogonal to the first rods (11), and a plurality of bricks (20) with grooves (21) on their sides containing at least parts of some of said rods (10) wherein some of the first rods (11) are facing portions of the structural element (60) their entire length, and are joined thereto at regular intervals by means of clamps (50), attached to said portions of the structural element (60), surrounding the corresponding first rod (11).

A ventilated facade comprising horizontal rails (4) and covering pieces (3-3′) mounted on the horizontal rails by means of anchoring elements (5), either wires or plates, which hang from the rails through openings (13) that said rails have on a horizontal section (6) of the same.

The invention relates to a ventilated wall for buildings comprising a thin coating or first layer (1) comprised of porcelain or ceramic stoneware, of marble, of travertine or of volcanic stone or of cement compounds, suitable for being provided at a distance from said building to realize an interspace for air circulation, said ventilated wall comprising a reinforcement system (10) for said first layer (1) comprising, on the side faced toward said building, a second fiberglass layer (2), coupled with said first layer (1), a third layer (3) comprised of foamed material, and a fourth layer (4), the coupling of said layers (1, 2, 3, 4) being realized by gluing material having flexibility properties.

A securing member includes a fixing portion having a reference surface and fixing holes, a main bulging portion having a contact surface that comes into contact with first to fourth exterior members, a supporting portion, upper and lower engagement portions attached to the supporting portion, a lower bulging portion, and an erected portion that projects from the lower bulging portion and that is disposed on a center line of the fixing portion between the first and third exterior members. One of the fixing holes that is closest to the center line is displaced from the center line. The fixing holes are arranged asymmetrically about the center line. A first length by which the main bulging portion bulges is greater than a second length by which the lower bulging portion bulges. The length from the reference surface to the front end of the erected portion is greater than the first length.

A z-shaped building material includes a base defining a z-shape configuration and at least one break-line disposed on an exterior surface of the base such that a geometric pattern of the z-shaped building materials creates a three-dimensional visual appearance. A reveal is disposed around an outer periphery of the base for receiving mortar to join together adjacent building materials. The base is formed from a material selected from the group consisting of clay, clay and straw, clay-bearing soil, sand and lime, cement, concrete and mixtures thereof. The z-shaped building material may be a masonry brick having a dimension of about eight inches in a height direction and a dimension of about eight inches in a width direction. The z-shaped building material may be a face brick having a dimension of about eight inches in a height direction and a dimension of about eleven and five-eighths inches in a width direction.