18th Nov (Tue): CM313 Product Fair
Finally the day has come to sum up my project for my construction methods and material class!
The project requires us to find a new product or material in the market and research on it. The deliverable of the project is for us to come up with a poster and a mock up to showcase the material/product and its life cycle.
For my group, we worked on the “Greenest Brick” and I’m proud to claim credit for finding this product. :D
The “Greenest Brick” is developed in 2007 and don’t be misled by its name. It is the greenest because it is made up of 100% fly ash (a type of waste material from coal burning) and cures at room temperature. This results in bricks that are 95% more energy efficient as compared to normal clay bricks which need to be fired. Hee.. why do I sound like I’m marketing the product? Lol.. but I have good reasons!
For the project, it is ideal if we could get samples of the product itself. So I went to email the developer of this product.. and he replied my email!! He even agreed to send us not one but 2 samples!! And we need not even pay for the shipping even though the bricks were heavy!! The bricks reached us super fast (like within 4 days from Columbia!!!) Good enough reason to help them market their pdt? :D
So on product fair itself, all the groups would be displaying their posters and mock-ups and we would take turn to explain our product to the rest of the people walking around during the fair. Hee… after a while.. Realized that our product is really quite cool and quite a lot of ppl was amazed by it.. Hope we are able to get a good grade on it!
For more information of the “Greenest Brick”, go to this website: http://www.greenestbrick.com/
Finally the day has come to sum up my project for my construction methods and material class!
The project requires us to find a new product or material in the market and research on it. The deliverable of the project is for us to come up with a poster and a mock up to showcase the material/product and its life cycle.
For my group, we worked on the “Greenest Brick” and I’m proud to claim credit for finding this product. :D
The “Greenest Brick” is developed in 2007 and don’t be misled by its name. It is the greenest because it is made up of 100% fly ash (a type of waste material from coal burning) and cures at room temperature. This results in bricks that are 95% more energy efficient as compared to normal clay bricks which need to be fired. Hee.. why do I sound like I’m marketing the product? Lol.. but I have good reasons!
For the project, it is ideal if we could get samples of the product itself. So I went to email the developer of this product.. and he replied my email!! He even agreed to send us not one but 2 samples!! And we need not even pay for the shipping even though the bricks were heavy!! The bricks reached us super fast (like within 4 days from Columbia!!!) Good enough reason to help them market their pdt? :D
So on product fair itself, all the groups would be displaying their posters and mock-ups and we would take turn to explain our product to the rest of the people walking around during the fair. Hee… after a while.. Realized that our product is really quite cool and quite a lot of ppl was amazed by it.. Hope we are able to get a good grade on it!
For more information of the “Greenest Brick”, go to this website: http://www.greenestbrick.com/
Our Poster.. completed it the night before the fair:
Setting up for the product fair.. the guys mixing water with ash
That's the bricks that was sent to us! it is so much smoother than normal clay bricks :)
Product Fair:
Our set-up right in the middle of the fair :)
Our presentation:
we did put up more data and statistics at the side of our poster.. just that i forgot to take another photo when the fair started.. :(
wahahaa.. of course must zi pai! now got widescreen :p
Our presentation:
we did put up more data and statistics at the side of our poster.. just that i forgot to take another photo when the fair started.. :(
Our mock up:
Showing the life cycle of the "Greenest Brick" by having samples of fly ash, fly ash with water, greenest bricks vs. clay bricks, and then crushed bricks for disposal..
we also did a powerpoint animation of the manufacturing process..
Group members Vinh and Monica:
The guys: Vinh and Patrick
The girls: Monica and me!
wahahaa.. of course must zi pai! now got widescreen :p
And a group photo!
Updates!
*happy! just got back our project marks! got 49/50 :D the 1 mark deducted was under the category 'poster presentation'.. but who cares :p *
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