This construction method also saves many man-hours of labor. Materials costs vary a lot, depending on site location. I would definitely look into this if I ever built another house.
These days they rejuvenate done ideas thinking we're foolish enough to fall for it again. They are not wrong. Legomaniacs everywhere love this idea. Erector set kids are laughing.
@@RossMalagariethat's false. Virgin plastic is ridiculously cheap. It's a byproduct of oil refineries. Those pellets cost about $1,000 per ton on the consumer market and come from a single source without additional labor for collection, transportation, or sorting. How much do you think the average ton of recycled plastic of varying grades and usability comes to? It's cost is nearly the same as virgin plastic without factoring those additional costs.
@@mattmarzulanice to hear common sense and logic aren't lost entirely, yet. That's why we have the problem in the first place, it isn't profitable to recycle plastic, is it ethical absolutely, but not cheaper than obtaining new plastic by any metric.
1. How do they hold-up to weather and sunlight exposure, heat, cold? 2. What is their fire resistance? 3. How much do they cost compared to timber frame housing. 4. Are they sufficiently load bearing for roofs, 2, 3 story buildings.
@@HooksBillthat would be hard to determine with the lack of information the short provided. It seems it could be used foe certain simple structures like sheds and barns. We just dont know the implications of use. What is it best designed for? Maybe either interior or exterior walls? Strong enough to support bases of structures. Your just like assuming its useless and IDK why. They are popping up with new ways of forming structures all the time. Only time will tell the best ideas.
My comment stands. @chamberlain85 re-read my comment. You'll never see entire housing developments using this, at least not in rural US. Or in commercial use for buildings, stores, restaurants. Not in the U.S. at least. Perhaps in other parts of the world.
This is my dads voice. He worked for “AI-DeltaOne”. Pioneered this AI automation. Voice. My dad was just a janitor for the company and they sampled his voice and used it. Needless to say our family never got a penny after my dad past. His voice lives on through these videos. Miss ya pops.
Fun fact: the inventor of plastic envisioned his creation as forever material so IDK who tf thought it'd be good for single use and basically we're back to square one.
Well its not single use, if it is actually recycled. Recycled plastic can be remade into clothing, playground equipment, road filler, building material just to name few.
I'll bet they're more fire resistant than timber frame buildings. But yes, worth testing - look at the aluminium/plastic shit that burned Grenfell like a torch!
The bulldozer did “budge” them and the only reason they didn’t break is because they are so light they just got pushed aside. Not a testament to their strength at all.
Right. They only mentioned compression strength too. Buildings I imaging undergo different kinds of stresses which would also need to take location into account. I'm no civil engineer or architect so I'll wait and see how many houses they actually build and for how much
But it moved as a cohesive unit; it didn't tumble and crumble and fall apart. If you laid out traditional bricks in a formation like that, with no foundation, - even with mortar- and ran into it with a big truck: those bricks would break apart and crumble, before the wall itself moved. You'd have a pile of broken red clay. The cohesion of these giant legos to each other is pretty solid.
That’s a myth. It’s mostly microscopic bits of plastic, but journalism whores take pictures of a pile of plastic because it’s more catchy than invisible plastics
Well I mean we could fish them out of the sea and make cement and plastic bricks with em. My neighbor technically a neighbor that is 10 blocks down the road did that with his new house. He is an architect and does a lot of eco friendly architecture in singapore and recycled houses. He disguised his house like any modern boring houses but the bricks are made of plastic and concrete
It's not really an island. It's an incredibly vast area with a significant density of plastic particles of varying size, mostly tiny, but it's not like you could land a boat on it.
They meant budged them apart.. yes it _moved_ because it is litht weight material that wasnt anchored down... but there was no separation of the bricks when hit
My #1 biggest concern is fire. When- not if, but when- there is a fire in a structure made of this plastic-infused concrete material, how many toxic chemicals will that plastic leech out? Especially in a home situation, where most people are sleeping: there are enough toxic chemicals in houses already. Wood framing with plasterboard walls makes smoke, but it's not *highly* toxic (bad enough, but still). I think that the future of this material may lie more in warehouses, storage facilities, sheds, garages, etc. Places where the people - to - building ratio is relatively low, where those people aren't sleeping. As long as we already have all of this plastic lying around, it would be nice to find another use for it. If we can find an efficient way to harvest it out from the floating ocean mats, from landfills, etc. Try to get it out of the environment. If anybody starts using raw, new, virgin plastic for this stuff, that will entirely defeat the purpose! I'm curious to see where this tech' goes, in the future. I've seen several videos on various companies, start-ups, inventors, trying their hand at the best brick shape, manufacturing process, materials, etc. It will be interesting to see where it goes from here...
First world people like you clearly never work with plastic 1.have you ever actually lighting up plastic? Because I do every week and they clearly won't just start by random Arizona climate, even fluffy one which is much more flammable than extremely pack plastic, took many of my paper scrap to light it up. 2.Most plastic won't just deteriorating out of nowhere, see water in plastic bottle won't just randomly be undrinkable, and whole reason plastic is massive waste issues is that they took forever to decompose let alone with no habitable place bacteria, concrete mixed and outside coated block, hell your body is filled with micro plastic from food water and air, and they clearly are much less harmful than asbestos concrete dust and wood filling that can damage lung.
@@Eeeeeex2 "First world people don't work with plastic?" I'm not sure what you mean by that. First world people are SURROUNDED by plastic! If my house burned down, all of my legos would be melted. All of my big pens, and my cell phone casing, and all of the plastic in my furniture, electronics, storage totes, toothbrushes, the rubber coatings on the electric wires, and plastic junction boxes and light switches, etc, etc, etc. Plastic does burn, and/or melt, and when it does, it gives off noxious, hazardous fumes and chemicals. I'm sure that if you just took a lighter and held it up to one of these bricks, it would not burst into flame. But the same is true of a log of firewood: just holding a lighter up to it will not cause a log to burst into flame; it takes kindling and sustained heat to cause it to catch fire, and then it smolders before it flames. But a log WILL burn; any wood will burn, if there is a big fire. And a plastic brick will burn and/or melt, if it is caught in a big fire. By the way: please do not intentionally burn plastic. It sounds like this is a thing you do on the regular. This is bad for your health. Please do not burn plastic at all, if you can avoid it. If you cannot avoid it, please find a high quality respirator to filter out the toxic chemicals. There are "more dangerous" things in our environment- such as asbestos, lead, etc, than micro-plastics. But just because they're not the MOST dangerous does not mean they're not dangerous; doesn't mean they're safe. Micro-plastics are a MAJOR concern for the health of human beings, as well as many forms of wildlife. It's kind of a big deal. Sorry to disagree with you, but I stand by my original statement.
@@Kammreiter *weekly, because our rural family don't have access to those garbage collection thing so we just burn it, tho most of the waste come from food anyway so it's not that bad.
First off let's speak the downright shitty truth, Lego stole the idea from a product that was already made. Don't go looking up the truth on Google, its true as blue and I promise it's not gonna stop the pain in your heart! 😅😅😅
@@joewoodchuck3824nope, many courts actually rulled that the lego "pins" clipping bricks together were actually fonctionnal features, thus couldn't be patented solely on that. Has happened in multiple countries and they always had the same answers, so they now sue knock-off companies that copies their sets
@@Khyrid Maybe, maybe not, an upper wooden floor can collapse in a fire. The NFPA journals and technical manuals will inform us as to any unique performance by these composite bricks. Best regards.
What about the air quality in the homes? Plastic's have poisonous compounds that adversely affect the human reproductive, cerebral, and other systems in the body. Is it recommended to install in super hot environments where the hot sun would release toxic plastic fumes in the home?
PFAS. PFOAS, PHTHALATES, petroleum and phosphate, aluminum based Flourines. Forever chemicals 50% of all flourine ingested by the human body is stored in the bones. FSA is in all our tap water too! 23 of the main chronic illnesses are due to FSA. Flouride is a halide, mimics iodine and binds to the thyroid gland. It also binds to aluminum and crosses the blood brain barrier.
I feel this is a silly question, but i understand where it comes from. These are materials that are meant to be inside the walls. The materials within your walls are not safe to inhale as well. This plastic/concrete hybrid brick is just one more thing that's going to be within those walls that will never reach your lungs. This is called a "load bearing core block" after all.
Another (possibly cheaper, more renewable, and more durable) alternative would be using hemp in place of plastic. Hempcrete is amazing stuff. Better uses for plastic imo.
Don't know a specific link, but there are definitely videos out there on the qualities of hemp in compound materials. The US military experimented with it in concrete and even ice that they literally built a ship out of. Ice-crete (ice with hemp or other durable fibers) has greater impact resistance than steel, and as well, adding hemp to concrete significantly increases its strength and durability.
@@Hugo_Basilio yep… I was intrigued and looked up the company. They advertise their price and product in comparison to others, as if they’re product is the best and cost is cheap. Laughed when I seen the comparisons
Can you prove your statement,or talking negative about a great product without knowledge or proof of what your saying,your could be right but if wrong you stopped people of benefiting from a great product
@stoneydement3285 how has he stopped people from benefiting 😂 the product isn't even being used yet and probably never will because its not as great as this little 30 second makes it out to be + why would you build whole houses out of plastic like a product not environmentally friendly 😂
What about plastic fumes? Some types of plastic fumes are really bad for your health, causing cancer. Today we are trying to build sustainable houses using mostly natural, breathable materials.
Good point, we spend billions getting rid of asbestos, this could be the same threat. however i am sure the bricks are made with sealant that binds the material, even so, a fire would release it all . Aging may also be not so safe.
Problem with using random shreds of plastic, different plastics melt at different temperatures and in hot climates may cause part of the brick to soften and separate from the rest of the brick and release toxic fumes and chemicals.
Trying to figure how these would hold up in hurricane country too. You’d have to tie them down with long lengths of all-thread anchored in concrete. Otherwise I’d think that building would get destroyed / shifted off its foundation. Good point about the toxicity.
You're not really getting rid of it though. You're just kicking the proverbial can down the road. You start building houses out of these and within 20 years you have the same plastic problem you have now when it comes to tearing them down to make room for new projects. How many building companies are going to take the time and money to re-recycle the bricks? If we go by today's standards, very few. All the while plastic companies keep getting to produce limitless amounts of plastic because "ours is recyclable". It was a lie 40 years ago, it was a lie 20 years ago, it's still a lie now. That's even assuming the bricks actually function as promised and hold up to modern building standards. I wouldn't hold my breath on that.
@@AMorphicTool something needs to be done with all our plastic waste before it ends up in the oceans. I mean that is super obvious to anyone with half a brain. This seems like a good option.
I mean the plastic is still there, how do we break it down into organic material is the question. We know that it's fundamentally impossible to destroy anything, we just transmute what already exists into new states
@@marckaufman2556 Hella good idea. I rent the machine(s) to build the bricks. make a huge stockpile then return the manufacturing machine. start on my house. :)
It's not so much the leakage it's when they burn. And sun will disintegrate them faster than something like vinyl siding or brick . Mostly though it's the burning if ever a fire started with many homes built with them are in the same area. And you know there would be hundreds of them if they're cheap.
I LOVE this, because “recycled” plastic is very, very hard to find economically worthwhile uses for and generally not economically viable, and so the vast majority of “recycled” plastic still ends up in landfills and even, tragically, the ocean. But perhaps not for long!!! Long live Canada!!🇨🇦 Glory to the anglosphere!
1. It doesn’t have to be used for housing. Might be good for sheds, infrastructure etc. 2. It’s mixed with concrete, so consistency of plastic is not that important. The idea is great. Obviously it’s expensive because it’s hand made. With some investment machines could easily do these types block’s affordably.
@@martinc6987Wood rots in out door weather eventually. Ideally you shouldn’t use wood for anything exposed to the weather. Even pressure treated wood eventually rots.
You missed the part about how expensive it would be to gather and sort the plastic plus the process to complete it. I saw nothing that would be inexpensive.
At least it'll still be in one piece when you find it at some corn field. And you then you can just put it on the bed of your pickup and drive it home.
Those large holes in the brick are for pipes that would be incorporated into your poured foundation or if you're lucky to have bedrock near the surface drilled into and foundation poured around them .top them off with steel beams and lock down nuts, thick steel sheets welded on as a roof and you have a nice storm shelter house . Throw in some bullet-proof windows, and you get to watch your hood fly away. It's not ideal for fires, though.
@@scottolnhausen4824 Use this for the outsite walls and the polystyrene insulation bricks for the inside; home is completely built, piped, & wired within 3 days.
One time use plastic is very cheap to make, The cost of replacing them is higher and the rate of climate change will be higher if we switch to organic measures cause we will have to destroy a lot of trees for it.
@@gg_saugat In the past you could recycle it efficiently but now energy prices have killed many company's like this so look at governments and energy company's they have priced recycling out of the market but still stand up and say OH we need to do more for climate change when in Fact they are the perpetrators
Imagine typing this comment with a plastic device in your hand, letting off EMF, inside a house is filled with plastic products you handle all day, everyday. 🙄
PLAEX Building Systems Inc. claims that their products are typically 15-30% cheaper than other project pricing. This is due to their No-Cut system, which eliminates wasted materials and reduces labor requirements and time. Their brick system also incorporates plumbing and electrical lines during assembly, which can save up to 35% on total project costs.
@@_Thoughtful_Aquarius_ I'm thinking that nobody in their right mind would want anything that ugly to be seen to be exposed to the light of day. The bricks are not to be used like clay bricks as a facade, they are to be used to replace the internal framing, replacing metal and wood studs but covered the same way with some kind of sheetrock on the inside of the building or siding on the outside. Then again, I can see someone leaving them exposed with painted grey panels and corrugated sheet metal given contemporary design trends and overpricing it.....
How would they possibly know what size piping and lines to use? And on top of that, there is a thing called "code" that makes this entire video invalid.
@@davetessmer6424 the issue is. It's made out of rubbish. If anything it should be the cost of that "little bit of concrete" + let's say 25% for the manufacturing of it.
Most home owners 'decide' to sell in situations other than relocation or change of circumstances because of degradation concomitantly occuring with chronological accumulation. This happens at great cost to either buyer or seller. If this is eliminated, the savings to society are great.
Quality consistency on these will be next to impossible. Unless they sort with an extremely advanced bachine and wash it... But any cost benefits are likely negated by that point. Unless its scaled to the extreme. Which isn't very likely. Otherwise great idea I think if it's as good as told.
Imagine building your house out of trash .... then living in trash .... and experiencing the off gassing of your trash... plastics are poisoness and cause cancer ...
Meanwhile, the us build houses made of sticks, that move just as much as this, are expensive af, burn like matches, and are covered and filled with plastic and easily burning materials.@@Touchit344
I love it. As an engineer I've know this was possible decades ago. It's got one big flaw though. You can't get plastic waste. I've tried. Recycling in the US is just one big giant government boondoggle. I actually had security escort me out of the building when I showed up at the local landfill (slash) recycling center inquiring about how to purchase the recycled plastic and glass. Here is the horror of it all. It is actually cheaper buying plastic pellets for injection molding blocks then to use recycled plastic. You also have to considered contamination which is a whole other legal quagmire.
Thanks for sharing, frustrating how it's only people on the ground who tell the truth about what going on rather than the creators being honest with the public instead want to make 🤑
There is an organization that is currently trying to clean up the oceans around the world. There was a video recently that was or is on RU-vid . If search RU-vid, under plastic and the ocean, you should find quite a few of their videos videos. They have been doing it for a few years And one of the issues that they have been dealing with is what to do with the plastic that they have all ready collected.
add some sun screen for UV protection and it will still be standing 1000 years from now, can't say that about concrete or wood....build once last forever so sounds like a great investment
That awkward moment when scientists are discovering microplastics in literally everything above ground, underground and in every body of water on the planet and these dudes figure out a way to make life-sized Legos out of the stuff. lol
One thing to know is that concrete production produces the most CO2 emissions in the world! So with something like this, it doesn't just use wasted, hard to manipulate materials like plastics, but it uses a little bit of concrete so instead of 100% concrete, it's 10% concrete, meaning only 10% of concrete CO2 emissions for those bricks.
Legos were originally for housing as well. The problem with Legos for housing was house fires causing poisonous gases to go into the air and kill the inhabitants.
In another complete video, the plastic bricks are coated with cement for finishing touches, thats why its gray and smooth, so no need to worry about inhaling micro plastic particles, and it wont easily burn.
Actually, I'm part of a team. This team, 5 years ago, built a construction brick just like this, but made of cardboard. They were lightweight (around 4kg each, compared to the 16kg concrete ones), resembled Lego bricks, easy to assemble, no concrete at all supported much more weight than the concrete ones, and cost around 2-3$ each. Furthermore, they were hidrophobic (they had a coat of borax) and prevented fire from spreading out. If you want to search it, the team is Aldeatrón Robotix from Spain, and the project is called E-Wall. It won an international price and it's in its way to being patented in the country.
Basically, they chuck the plastic waste into a funnel and shred it into small pieces. Then the plastic shred gets cleaned and mixed with other ingredients before going into an extruder. Once coming out the other end, you get a cement-like eco-paste with the bonus of being made of over 90% recycled materials. What about the remaining 10%? Colourants, UV & flame inhibitors will make up the rest. While PLAEX can’t disclose the full technology yet, the company says their process is a closed-loop system requiring less steps compared to other recycling methods. And this means saving time, energy, and water. How about the cost? Initially, the bricks will be pegged at the same price as conventional systems. However, when you factor in faster prep and fewer production steps, PLAEX can deliver very low-cost sustainable building solutions.
Теплоёмкость у этих кирпичей никакая, в таком доме будет жарко летом и холодно зимой. Про конструктивную прочность пластика у меня тоже есть вопросы, потому что она намного больше зависит от температуры, чем традиционные материалы. Кирпич при -50° и +50° Цельсия это всё ещё кирпич, бетон всё ещё бетон, дерево всё ещё дерево, металл всё ещё металл. А вот дешёвый переработанный пластик при таких температурах превращается в дерьмо, хрупкое/жидкое соответственно. Про пожарную безопасность не сказал ещё только ленивый, но я хочу напомнить что многие виды пластика, особенно дешёвого пластика способны выделять летучие ядовитые вещества. Без всякого нагрева. Круглосуточно.
My wife said the same thing, concerning volitile/noxious emissions! Thanks for your insight! My thought was to coat it with some type of impermeable material to seal any off gasing! I have no thoughts presently addressing your other concerns. I would offer that this has potential, but these concerns need to be addressed!
Pretty smart. The interlock reduces labor. The concrete gives UV and heat resistance. The plastic is just binder, weight reduction and waste repurposing. Similar to Aircrete. Genius. Still needs wood interior frames to put up sheetrock walls.
Make more plastic to feed the shortage in plastic waste for the production of plastic bricks lol On another note these could make handy emergency housing in disaster zones especially as they aren't cemented together they could be taken apart and reshipped to reconstruct and building
I'm betting that like prefab cement buildings, strips of wood, to which dry wall could be attached, will create a space for those needs. Ducts are usually in ceilings which won't be made of these. I've been around construction enough to use a little knowledge and imagine to figure that out.
No, you'd use blocks with ducts already cut into them. You just align them at the design stage, then use the right bricks to form the channel when you build it. They'll do bricks with plug socket back boxes already built in, and then you run the wires through the channels formed at construction time.
Lot of people trying real hard to discredit the brick while lacking the foresight to recognize they don’t have to completely replace classic bricks. Personally, I find it rather comforting that we are recycling plastics instead to letting them pollute the environment.
Those are anything but micro 😅... The real concern with these bricks is off-gassing (toxic gasses and nano-plastics slowly seeping from the brick even when it's not hot). Plus microplastics mostly come from synthetic fibres, rather than solid plastic forms. Microplastics predominantly come from our clothing! Nearly everything is made with at least a polyester blend, if not completely synthetic fibre. Micro plastics are super small pieces of plastic. Nanoplastics are smaller, single polymer strands, single molecule thick.
Plastic was found in over 90% of pregnant women's wombs in recent studies and has penetrated into levels of the Earth that last was exposed to air millions of years ago. It's everywhere, and takes longer than nuclear waste to go away.
They moved the STRUCTURE that was not secured to the ground in any way. It did not affect the integrity of the structure itself. Try that with ANY masonry wall and see what happens; the structure would break and crumble.
@@research903 Um if it was secured down would the bulldozer move it, destroy it, or break the secureing pieces? Or are you suggesting a bulldozer wouldn't move it?
Spray paint the brick with a fire retardant, which will also form a vapor barrier and make it the perfect building block. It can also clean our oceans that are full of plastic bottles.
See I'm concerned with the structural integrity of recycled plastic I feel like it would be much cheaper to just produce brand new plastic, recycling is expensive and difficult not to mention impurities
@@user-ge5pg9wi1z Recycling plastic is hard almost exclusively due to the fact that you need to separate different kinds of plastic by hand. If you don't care about specific waste composition and just throw it all in a shredder, that's a non-issue. Polymer degradation before recycling is another difficulty with it but if you're just using it as a filler for concrete, it's a non issue either.
You can see the hole premolded into the brick that would allow for steel rods to be driven down thru them. Could run them down into a concrete foundation and secure them. Wind would have a tough time moving it. If you're talking about Tornados... not many modern homes can withstand that so your point is moot.
@@LordBLBJust watched a tractor push the whole pile. The holes look too big for a metal rod. And if you stagger them like concrete bricks your rod theory is also moot. Owned.
@@sircharms531 you owned no one! If you stagger them the holes will still always align perfectly! And while it's probably not for a metal bar to push through, you can anker metal rods into the foundation and fill the holes with concrete. That's how you already build lightweight walls with other materials... You should read and work a bit more before mentioning owning anyone kid!
