Evolution of Fired Clay Products: from Origin to Sustainable Building Ceramics

摘要

Nowadays, the design of building and construction materials should be straightly linked to the environmental context of industrial development and the many regulations and constraints linked to energy, ecosystems, geography and communities. In one word, building materials today have to be sustainable. In this paper, the authors turn back to the history of structural clay products and described their evolution and the factors that have affected the evolution of their products.