Best Match

1 - the geese in the background show that the fake coyote doesn't deter geese

Anyway, no sympathy for problems faced by hostile architecture installers.

"As the construction industry continues to evolve with new technologies and methodologies, the role of the project manager is also changing. Discuss how the competencies required for a project manager today differ from those in the past. What new skills or knowledge areas have become essential? How do you see the role evolving in the future?"

and I ofc got verbose with it

The double-stacked bricks with the line across them (one pair is half a brick over to the right of the bottom of the lower window pane) are called Shadow-Tex, at least in the part of USamerica where I learned about bricks. Aa far as I know, Belden Brick is the only company in this area that makes that texture and shape. Below is one of Belden's shadow-tex brick in a color that would work here. Maybe I'll do a separate post to explain how shadow-tex bricks are made, because it's neat. They are usually at least 11 inches long, so you'd have to cut them to make them match the length of the others (7 5/8" if the building was built in the last 35ish years, maybe 8" if it was built before that).

The rest could probably be matched with Acme Brick's Mission Trace, though king size might not work.

If mixing Belden's shadow-tex romans and Acme's Mission Trace kings is too much work, you could conceivably use General Shale's New Foundland bricks by themselves. The bark texture on some of the bricks in this blend (blended from different lines at the plant) could kinda match the shadow-tex brick from afar.

Oh and the piece above the window is called a lintel, pronounced like the legume. Concrete lintels are reinforced with rebar, so they can hold the weight of a brick veneer!

Hi :) thanks so much for your enthusiasm!

I mostly know about midwest US brick manufacturers, but I can tell you that some of the biggest manufacturers here sometimes import from Europe! Imported brick, mainly because of the weight, is prohibitively expensive for most projects. Sometimes, though, the impact of a backsplash or accent wall of imported thin brick, for example, is worth the cost.

Glen-Gery has 8 manufacturing plants in the US and their inventory portal includes Plant 9, which is all the international options. Their Feldhaus thin brick is apparently made in Germany and their glass brick are apparently Venetian! Their "San Selmo Corso", super long thin brick, are part of the International line but the mobile site doesn't say where they're from. I know the Piave Raw sample I ordered one time took forever to arrive in the mail, so it may have come from abroad. Their La Paloma line says "Spanish-inspired" so idk, but there's only two options, so that does sound imported.

Belden Brick has their Mora Ceramics line that comes from Illescas, Spain.

Before BrickCraft bought Brampton Brick's USamerican plant in Indiana, Brampton was an international company because they had one plant in the US and one in Canada. They still import a ton (well, thousands of tons) of products to the US (brick, cement products, manufactured stone, and natural stone).

"Are there brick enthusiast resources regarding logging and identification helpful in identifying bricks from different countries or are there less documented countries?"

Ya know that joke about the entire infrastructure of the internet being built on pillars of "some guy in nebraska thanklessly maintaining a project for decades"? Oh I found it it's this one:

The masonry industry is like this in that most companies -- manufacturers, distributors, and masons and builders -- rely on a couple employees per company that know everything there is to know about bricks. Some of the Outside Sales salespeople where I worked (salesmen, because the owner almost never hired women to do that job) had been working there for over 30 years.

Often, when people would call needing a brick match, or would bring bricks in, the quickest way to match it was to just ask whichever seasoned outside salesman was in office atm. Sometimes, they could just drive by a house and identify the brick without even stopping for a closer look. Other times, if I could figure out when it was built and which builder ran the job, I could ask a salesperson that was around then, or I could call the builder and ask them.

A lot of companies, like Belden Brick, boast that they're the experts, but really, they have a few employees that are walking encyclopedias (Encyclopedia Brick-tanica lol). Belden had a guy named Kevin and Kevin knew fuckin everything.

One quality that Palmetto's Hartsville Rose has that makes it match the chimney/wall in the pic is what I can only describe as "The Sweetness". Cherokee Brick's Beaumont (in the pic, Ivory is the mortar color) has a touch of The Sweetness. If those are too orange, then Belden's Queensport Blend could work, at least to create a similar mood, but it's a weird size and it doesn't have the color variation in each piece that the other two have. Idk,this one was hard, so pls tell me what you think in the notes!

@blakebloodbath oh my god you're right. Zooming in on the corner, the seam is obvious and anyway there are so visible corner pieces, it's all just the long stretcher face on either side. Really good catch!

"Full range" means the full color variation allowed by the mix of clay, shale, additives, and colorants in any one run of a particular brick recipe. "Flashing" in this context means that different places in the kiln were different temperatures, causing the bricks to cook to different temps at different speeds. If there is a lot of color variation on the face of a single brick, it's probably flashed. If the color varies from one brick to another in one run, it's full range. "Clear" brick, if we're not talking about Glen-Gery's glass brick, means zero color variation. Belden's Admiral Velour (velour is the texture) comes in a clear option and a full range option.

Another option is a "blend", which is when more than one run of brick, with different recipes of ingredients, are literally blended in a certain ratio. Belden Brick touts that they go the extra mile for customers by blending brick at the factory (otherwise, masons have to blend the bricks themselves as they lay them by working from two or three different cubes. Experienced masons willing and able to do that are expensive but blending onsite is asking too much of most affordable masons). Belden's factory has it down to a science (part of that science is employees working the hell outta their oblique muscles).

The double-stacked bricks with the line across them (one pair is half a brick over to the right of the bottom of the lower window pane) are called Shadow-Tex, at least in the part of USamerica where I learned about bricks. Aa far as I know, Belden Brick is the only company in this area that makes that texture and shape. Below is one of Belden's shadow-tex brick in a color that would work here. Maybe I'll do a separate post to explain how shadow-tex bricks are made, because it's neat. They are usually at least 11 inches long, so you'd have to cut them to make them match the length of the others (7 5/8" if the building was built in the last 35ish years, maybe 8" if it was built before that).

The rest could probably be matched with Acme Brick's Mission Trace, though king size might not work.

If mixing Belden's shadow-tex romans and Acme's Mission Trace kings is too much work, you could conceivably use General Shale's New Foundland bricks by themselves. The bark texture on some of the bricks in this blend (blended from different lines at the plant) could kinda match the shadow-tex brick from afar.

Oh and the piece above the window is called a lintel, pronounced like the legume. Concrete lintels are reinforced with rebar, so they can hold the weight of a brick veneer!

One quality that Palmetto's Hartsville Rose has that makes it match the chimney/wall in the pic is what I can only describe as "The Sweetness". Cherokee Brick's Beaumont (in the pic, Ivory is the mortar color) has a touch of The Sweetness. If those are too orange, then Belden's Queensport Blend could work, at least to create a similar mood, but it's a weird size and it doesn't have the color variation in each piece that the other two have. Idk,this one was hard, so pls tell me what you think in the notes!