Build for Living. Report.

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As in the wider community, Brickworks Building Products™ awareness of the value and scarcity of water has increased in the past decade. Water is used to varying extents across the group. Brick manufacture, for example, requires considerable process water. Other activities such as concrete masonry manufacture use less. Water is also required for washing machinery and for staff consumption and amenities such as washrooms.

In the past decade there has been a concerted effort in the group to reduce water consumption and, importantly, to reduce our dependence on town water. Water harvesting is widely practised across the group. Bowral Bricks® plant and Austral Bricks® Wollert, Horsley Park Plant 3 and Riverview plants are totally water self-sufficient, using only water that is collected and stored on the site.

Process water is also captured and recycled at many sites and development work is ongoing to further improve our performance.