Build for Living. Report.
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meeting the sustainability challenge
Lindsay Partridge, AM Managing Director
Brickworks™ Limited began in the suburbs of Sydney in 1934 when a group of Sydney’s leading brick manufacturers, including The Austral Brick Company (with a history dating back to 1908), formed Brickworks™ Limited.
In the intervening 80 years, the company has grown, organically and by acquisition,to become one of Australia’s largest and most diverse building products manufacturers.
This success is partly attributable to the company’s ability to adapt to changing community needs. And few are more important in today’s climate-challenged and resource-hungry world, than the need to conserve our precious natural resources. Brickworks Building Products™ is comprised of well known product brands such as Austral Bricks®, Austral Masonry®, Austral Precast®, Bristile Roofing™, Auswest Timbers®, Austral Façades™, Bowral Bricks®, Nubrik®, Daniel Robertson® and GB Masonry.
Brickworks Building Products™ has taken up the sustainability challenge and is actively pursuing reform of its products and processes, from the quarry through to delivery to the building site, from the factory floor to the sales office.
Brickworks Building Products™ has entrenched cultural values across the business that all employees work by. We are committed to encouraging concern and respect for the environment and emphasising every employee’s responsibility for environmental performance. All businesses are managed in a sustainable manner and we don’t make a profit by damaging the environment.
Our objective is to comply with all applicable environmental laws and regulations and community standards in a commercially effective way.