September 28, 2011

Completion of our New Design Center, Brick Garden, and Headquarters


We are pleased to announce the completion of our New State of the Art Design Center. We at Triangle Brick would like to invite you to visit our Design Center and Brick Garden showcasing innovative ways to design a home using brick. As a courtesy to our builders, architects, masons, and homeowners, we offer complimentary exterior design services. We have many exterior samples in our design center that we can display with our entire product line of color, styles, and textures, making it easy for one to visualize the complete brick project. Our goal is to demonstrate the many advantages that a brick wall system offers and to make the brick selection process as easy as possible. Please contact our Design Consultant Beth at 919-226-5611 to schedule an appointment or drop by. Our Design Center Hours are 8:00-5:00, Monday - Friday, however our Brick Garden is always open! We look forward to seeing you!

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April 05, 2011

Triangle Brick donated to the 2011 SkillsUSA masonry event
at the Greensboro Coliseum

The North Carolina Skills USA contest was held on March 30 & 31, 2011 at the Memorial Coliseum in Greensboro, NC. The Masonry Contest featured 66 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students laying brick and block to see who would be crowned North Carolina State Champion and earn the right to represent the State in the US Skills National Olympics in Kansas City, Kansas. After two days of competition, Drew Dennis of West Stanley High School in Albemarle, NC won the event b y completing two projects to near perfection. Mr. Tim Kidd, Drew's masonry instructor said, "This is a fine young man in and out of the classroom. He will represent the state well." Mr. Kidd previously had a student who won the Masonry National Championship in 2006. The competition is sponsored by the NC Department of Public Instruction, The Brick Industry Association - Southeast Region, the Carolinas Concrete Masonry Association and the North Carolina Masonry Contractors Association. Triangle Brick Company supplied the brick used to construct the projects. "Support for these kind of events is vital to the continued existence of a qualified workforce within the masonry industry," says Pete Cieslak, executive director of the Brick Industry Association Southeast Region.

To learn more about SkillsUSA North Carolina visit their website www.skillsusanc.org.

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April 2011

BrickStainable Award Winners Honored
During Ceremony at National Building Museum

Cambridge Professor Alan Short Delivers “world tour” keynote address



ROCKVILLE, MD—April 6, 2011— Innovative thinkers from across the globe gathered in Washington, DC to recognize the winners of the 2nd Annual BrickStainable International Design Competition.

Competition winners created sustainable architectural designs using brick as the primary material. Potomac Valley Brick hosted the Awards Ceremony at the National Building Museum, an apropos location, given it is constructed with over 15 million bricks. Among nearly 200 guests included representatives from the EPA Energy Star Program, Integrated Environmental Solutions, Enterprise Green Communities, and the Brick Industry Association.

The night’s festivities included a Keynote Address delivered by one of the industry’s foremost minds on sustainable heavy construction, University of Cambridge Professor of Architecture, Alan Short, MA DipArch RIBA FRSA. Short took the audience on a riveting world tour of buildings his firm, Short & Associations, have designed that maintain a temperate interior atmosphere using minimal or no mechanical systems. They’ve worked in various climates, from the desert of Malta to the fluctuating hot and cold of Chicago.

Video presentation clips from the jury deliberation revealed a little bit about why the four jurors selected each winning entry as the winners were called to the stage to receive with their awards.

The BrickStainable Competition was broken into two categories, integrated building design where entrants were tasked with creating a sustainable building in an urban Baltimore setting, and technical design, where entrants explored specific aspects and assemblies of a brick. Winners in the two categories include:

Integrated Building Design Grand Prize
  • Jamillah Muhammad, Ronald Moore, Dindo Mabana, Tou Boran Pek, Kathleen Stover, Boryana Fileva, a team from Perkowitz & Ruth in Virginia (USA) for Net Zero in Baltimore
Integrated Building Design Honorable Mentions
  • Robert Kane, a student in San Casciano (Italy) for in BRICK, of BRICK, for BRICK, & by BRICK
  • Heather Santos and Jillian Schroettinger, students at Cal Poly Pomona in California (USA) for MassEnergy Science Center
  • Shane Valentine, a student at University of Texas San Antonio, Texas (USA) for Cultivating Energy
Technical DesignGrand Prize
  • Jason Vollen and Kelly Winn, of CASE New York (USA) for EcoCeramic Masonry Systems
Technical Design Honorable Mentions
  • Rizal Muslimin, a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Massachusetts (USA) for BrickBead
  • Jason Vollen, Kelly Winn and Ted Ngai, of CASE New York (USA) for Climate Camouflage


Potomac Valley Brick’s President and BrickStainable Founder, Alan Richardson spoke of the global attention the competition has received, citing the 21,000 website visits from 128 countries.

“We set out to achieve greater awareness of the role brick can play in the green movement and with the support of our growing list of sponsors and endorsers it’s starting to happen in a big way. This year total registrations were from 62 countries.”

“We are proud to be a sponsor of BrickStainable.” says Mike Renaker, Director of national Sales for Triangle Brick. “Potomac Valley Brick is a great company, a great partner and we are honored to be a part of such a wonderful event”.

Mike went on to say, “We feel its important brick be used for more than just the aesthetic qualities it offers. A clay brick wall system offers many benefits other systems cannot. This competition highlights the sustainability a clay brick can offer to a project.”

About BrickStainable

BrickStainable is a design competition seeking integrative design solutions that promote the use of clay brick to achieve sustainability goals. The competition explores the potential of brick construction in the creation of energy efficient building and challenges designers to maximize the physical characteristics of brick. The competition was created by Potomac Valley Brick in 2009.
November, 2010

Triangle Brick breaks ground on new
Corporate Headquarters and Design Center


Construction to be completed in the summer of 2011.

Triangle Brick Company's Design Center will be used by architects, developers, builders, masons, designers and homeowners to learn and experience our product through physical and technological exhibits.

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October 30, 2009

New size joining the Triangle Brick family of products.



Olympian Details

Dimensions
English		 Dimensions
Metric (Hard)		 Bricks
Per Cube		 Approx.
Weight		 Approx. Bricks
per Sq. Ft.
2 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. 57 x 70 x 190 620 2.9 lbs. 7


Available in these colors

Northampton Southampton Cape Cod Williamsburg Bessemer Grey

Ask your sales representative or distributor for more information.