Architectural and Urban Design Team Photos
Architectural and Urban Design Team Photos

Technical Services

Our Technical team are on hand to provide free easy access to useful advice, documentation and technical tools relating to all our building solutions. 

Brickwork

Expertise and provision to build with bricks

The Wienerberger technical team can deliver the below services when it comes to helping you specify brickwork on your next project.

  • Assistance with specifications for clay bricks
  • Advice relating to application best practice of clay bricks in design and construction
  • Design advice on provision for movement with clay bricks
  • Recommendations on associated brickwork components such as Damp-Proof Courses, mortars and more
  • Design advice on the use of British Standard and purpose made special bricks
  • Brickwork related CPD seminars

If you have any queries about specifying or constructing with Wienerberger bricks, please contact our Technical team.

Blockwork

Receive quality technical and design advice on Porotherm

The Porotherm and Poroton range is Wienerberger’s unique clay block walling system and ideal for the UK construction market. 

We offer technical and design advice on the Porotherm and Poroton systems in conjunction with Lucideon SP148 document. This covers all materials and components, building codes, fire performance, air/water permeability, thermal performance and condensation risk analysis, acoustics and workmanship.

Our technical team also offers:

  • Project-specific advice
  • Cavity and Monolithic construction design advice
  • Training
  • Ancillary items specification (e.g. ties, lintels and fixings)
  • Provision of technical literature
  • Liaison with regulatory bodies (NHBC and LABC approval/warranty)

If you would like to find out more installing Porotherm or Poroton systems, please contact our technical team.

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Roof Tiles

Enhance and enrich your roof tiling projects

Helping customers with product selection is the backbone of our technical support service for roofing, as this can be quite complex. We advise on each product’s individual performance, suggest suitable products answer any other enquiries a customer may have.

Our technical team offer the following support services in relation to roof tiles, systems and accessories.

  • General roofing advice and support
  • Product performance and design advice
  • Take-off service (working out product quantity from architectural drawings)
  • Specification-writing
  • Bespoke project design and support
  • Problem-solving

To speak to a member of our Technical team about our roofing products, please contact us.

Online Roofing Tools

Introducing All4Roof, our free online roof surveying tool

With All4Roof you can survey a roof wherever, whenever, and send a quote to your customer in minutes. Designed with ease and speed of use in mind, All4Roof is completely free to use.

Often using a wide range of tools and online programs, roofers will need to take into account a number of important parameters when planning, designing and costing a client’s roof – roof shape, dimensions, geographical parameters, model of roof tile, fixing specification etc, as well as the building regulations and location needs. All4Roof brings all these elements together and stores and tracks plans, projects and quotes for easy access and sharing with the end client if desired.

See how easy it is by signing up for your free account and get started surveying your next project. Visit All4Roof now to create your account.

To speak to a member of our Technical team about our roofing products, please us our contact form. 

Facade

Specialist wall cladding solutions for best performance

We offer high-performance façade and wall cladding solutions to suit a variety of large and small scale projects.

Our technical team can offer façade-related support in the following areas: -

  • Product performance and design advice
  • Full design support in CAD and Revit
  • Building regulations and codes of practice advice
  • Site support with ongoing projects

If you have a technical enquiry regarding our Corium or SVK façade systems, our team will be happy to help. Click here to contact our technical team. 

Research and Development

Share your opinion with us

Here at Wienerberger, we constantly strive to innovate through continually reviewing our product range. A big part of this is gathering feedback from our customers, listening to their advice and looking at how we can incorporate their suggestions into our products moving forward. After all, we’re here to make their lives easier!

Our Research and Development team work on the following projects:

  • Innovation research
  • Product development
  • Product testing
  • 3D printing
  • Engineering analysis
  • Product animations and photo realistic renders
  • Design support

As a leading building solutions manufacturer, our job is to bring innovative and fit for purpose products to market that meet and surpass the expectations of our customers.

One of the most valuable resources we have when it comes to product design is the opinions of our customers. The people that handle and install our products every day have an in-depth knowledge of how our products work in practice. Therefore, we want to hear what our customers think of our products. What do you like and dislike? What are we doing right and what could we improve on?

If you would like to share your opinion with us, please get in touch by clicking here

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