Midway Environmental Associates, Inc. Intro - Midway introduces a new environmentally friendly manufactured building materials system called WoodBrik(TM)

Introducing a new class of materials called semi-cementitious:
A smarter, less expensive, faster & better way to build with one-step environmental materials

To builders, wood and cement are old friends, which come together in WoodBrik^TM. For that reason, this new product is both an alternative and a primary building product. Alternative because it departs from what seems conventional, yet primary because it uses some of nature's oldest materials: natural cement called pozzolans, and wood, as waste scraps. The use of such familiar waste byproducts makes WoodBrik^TM THE material of choice for earth-friendly yet high quality construction components.

This patented material is described as semi-cementitious because it shows at the same time the virtues of both wood and natural cement in a 100% waste product.

Semi-cementitious products are designed to take the place of wooden studs, concrete block, adobe, man-made insulation, gypsum drywall, and siding in structural walls. With formula changes, other building products such as shingles and panels are feasible, and under development.

With such multiple functions, semi-cementitious material has the effect of signficantly reducing pressure on the world's environmental resources. Its use can:

Make use of saw waste, and reduce cutting of trees.

Reduce the kiln energy needed to prepare cement.

Reduce the mining of sand, gravel, limestone and gypsum.

Reduce the need to produce insulation from chemicals.

Reduce the need to dispose of waste by fire or burial.

Make use of agricultural fiber.

Reduce overall harm to the air, earth and water.

Developed by Midway Environmental Associates, Inc., of Arvada, Colorado, products fabricated from such material can be nailed, screwed and sawed like wood, yet they are formed and harden like concrete. They are lightweight, weather and water resistant, self-insulating, noncombustible, and capable of bearing significant structural loads.

Semi-cementitious material can be molded into interlocking shapes and be assembled without mortar (walls being bolted from foundation through top plate). Chief among Midway's semi-cementitious products is the tradename, WoodBrik^tm, a block which comprises an exterior wall system which is less expensive in finished form than any other system now in use.

The controlling U.S. patent, "Structural Products Manufactured From Fly Ash," was issued July 9, 1996, as patent No. 5,534,058.





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