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Sustainability The built environment is the fabric of our cities and our lives and Brickworks’ products form part of this ever-changing fabric. Brickworks products are integrated into thousands of homes, apartments, commercial buildings, landscapes and infrastructure projects built each year.
Build for Living: Towards 2025, Brickworks Sustainability Strategy Brickworks’ sustainability strategy, “Build for Living: Towards 2025”, recognises the substantial environmental and social impacts of the built environment, and the role its products play in creating sustainable developments. Brickworks understands its responsibilities, and the impact and influence it has on the environment, customers, employees, communities, and shareholders. The sustainability strategy focuses on the opportunity to make buildings and cities safe, resilient and sustainable. Design that incorporates sustainability brings greater energy and resource efficiency over the operational lifetime of a building. The sustainability strategy sets a clear pathway from the prior year, with measurable commitments, to ensure Brickworks continues to have a positive environmental and social impact, with strong governance and a culture of care for the community. At the heart of the strategy is Brickworks’ sustainability framework, with three pillars: Responsible Business, Environment and Our People and Community. Within these pillars, Brickworks focuses on three core objectives to deliver positive outcomes for stakeholders:
◗ Responsible Business: Leading Building Design - Safe, Resilient, Sustainable
◗ Environment: Sustainable Manufacturing ◗ Our People and Community: Diversity and Strong Culture of Care for Community.
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Under these objectives, Brickworks is committed to delivering on 15 targets by 2025 with the baseline year of FY2019, except where otherwise noted. Build for Living: Towards 2025 can be downloaded from Brickworks website www.brickworks.com.au
Sustainability Reporting Brickworks understands its long-term responsibilities, and the impact and influence the business has on the environment, customers, employees, communities and shareholders. Brickworks takes great pride in manufacturing building products in a sustainable way, creating sustainable developments and beautiful products that last forever. Sustainability and innovation is integrated into product design to create greater energy and resource efficiency over the operational lifetime of a building. Brickworks 2021 Sustainability Report provides a chance to cover these issues in depth, informed by international standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative. The Sustainability Report for the year ended 31 July 2021 shares Brickworks sustainability journey with an overview of the progress against targets and case studies. The Sustainability Report can be found at www.brickworks.com.au
