Recognising Sustainability: Brickworks’ New Environmental Product Declaration Labels
Bringing an elevated level of transparency to their manufacturing practices, Brickworks embraces sustainability through publishing Environmental Product Declaration Labels (EPDs).
As an increasing demand for sustainability in building materiality grows, EPDs provide an accessible tool and format to assess and understand a construction product’s impact on the environment. These third party verified EPDs empower consumers, architects, builders, and developers to remain informed on the environmental effect of their choices in materiality.
Showcasing the true extent of Brickworks’ commitment to sustainability producing materials, EPDs are now available for over 1,000 products from Brickworks’ portfolio. Spanning from pavers to blocks to roofing materials, these products are manufactured at a variety of local sites, including Gympie, Wollert, Punchbowl, Longford, Golden Grove, and Rochedale.
Determined via a Life Cycle Assessment (or LCA), the environmental impact of the product is determined over the course of a product’s lifecycle – extending from the extraction of the raw materiality that forms the product, all the way to its ultimate disposal. Throughout the lifecycle environmental indicators are measured, including carbon emissions, energy use, water consumption, and waste generation.
“Showcasing the true extent of Brickworks’ commitment to sustainability producing materials, EPD’s are now available for over 300 products from Brickworks’ portfolio.”
Brickworks’ EPDs provide a valuable system by which architects, developers, and builders can better understand the environmental impact of their build. By making informed choices through the ability to compare materials during early planning stages, professionals can ensure that builds can meet certain regulatory thresholds, understand the upfront embodied carbon of their build, or focus upon environmentally responsible green building practices. Furthermore, EPDs provide a verified and transparent format through which architects, developers, and builders can showcase their environmental consideration and sustainable construction efforts publicly.
In publishing these EPDs, Brickworks highlights their ongoing commitment to sustainability, empowering consumers to remain informed on the environmental impact of their building materials and allowing them to make informed choices when selecting materials.
This range echoes the iconic Hawthorn brick that gives so many of Melbourne’s historic inner city homes their distinct character. The Hawthorn range captures red, tan and brown base clay colours, and are further highlighted with dark and strong blue char and black frit, giving them a rich historic ambience. When combined with Daniel Robertson’s heavy textured face, the result is that no two clay bricks are the same, lending it a truly unique, handmade aesthetic.
Earthy, romantic, and strikingly beautiful. Like the magnificent wide-ranging beauty of Tasmania that inspire this collection, each brick has been created so each double-face is inherently unique in colour and form, but with an extraordinarily natural ‘reclaimed’ feel.
These distinctive dry pressed bricks have been used in many of Australia’s most admired and historic buildings. With their unique granular patina and tactile aesthetic, Bowral bricks are highly prized by customers, architects and designers alike, and set the standard for design and integrity. Their sharp edges and inherent character combine with the distinctive Bowral clay colours to create what can only be a Bowral Brick.
These distinctive dry pressed bricks have been used in many of Australia’s most admired and historic buildings. With their unique granular patina and tactile aesthetic, Bowral bricks are highly prized by customers, architects and designers alike, and set the standard for design and integrity. Their sharp edges and inherent character combine with the distinctive Bowral clay colours to create what can only be a Bowral Brick.
These distinctive dry pressed bricks have been used in many of Australia’s most admired and historic buildings. With their unique granular patina and tactile aesthetic, Bowral bricks are highly prized by customers, architects and designers alike, and set the standard for design and integrity. Their sharp edges and inherent character combine with the distinctive Bowral clay colours to create what can only be a Bowral Brick.
These distinctive dry pressed bricks have been used in many of Australia’s most admired and historic buildings. With their unique granular patina and tactile aesthetic, Bowral bricks are highly prized by customers, architects and designers alike, and set the standard for design and integrity. Their sharp edges and inherent character combine with the distinctive Bowral clay colours to create what can only be a Bowral Brick.
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