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With a carbon footprint less than 4% of that of a standard clay brick, the K-Briq’s use whether in full builds, elevations or features contributes significantly to a building’s carbon reduction and the use and cost of carbon offsetting. Kenoteq is currently working with BRE on its EPD and BBA certification.Īs it launches in the UK market in 2023, with production hitting 3 million bricks this year, the K-Briq is initially positioned as a premium product in the brick facing and façade market, based on its superior sustainability credentials, appealing aesthetics and flexible design potential given the opportunity for colour-matching and bespoke colour development. Kenoteq also offer a colour matching service and can produce bespoke options. The K-Briq and K-Slip are available in a range of thirteen stock colours, all made from recycled pigments. The K-Slip, whilst suitable now within interiors, will be certified for external use by late 2023/early 2024.

Its Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certificate and Design Guide will also be available in early 2023, the latter specifying both traditional and lime mortars. The K-Briq is in its final stages of BBA certification in the UK allowing its commercial use from Spring 2023. The K-BRIQ® has <5% the carbon footprint of a traditional clay brick and is made from 95% inert recycled content, over 90% of which comes from recycled construction and demolition waste. Kenoteq’s low-carbon production process does not require high temperature firing, virgin cement or high volumes of clay for its production. The K-SLIP™ is made from the same materials and offers a brickslip and tile alternative for sustainable interiors and, also for the off-site sector which favours brickslip facades which can be efficiently installed in factory conditions. It has comparable strength to traditional bricks and blocks and high thermal mass, and a competitive technical specification. It is suitable for applications currently met by traditional bricks and blocks in exterior and interior environments.

The K-BRIQ® is a resource-efficient construction brick made from inert recycled input materials. Therefore, leading contractors and housebuilders are having to look abroad to secure brick supplies.įurthermore, the recent energy price rises and energy availability will have on-going impact to the traditional brick manufacturers who rely on energy-intensive excavation of resources and hugely energy intensive firing of clay and concrete bricks. More recent events have seen further restrictions in materials supply, availability and lead times. Over 500 million of these were imported due to a shortage in domestic supply and a huge 85% of bricks used in Scottish new builds were imported to Scotland in 2018 because of localised supply constraints. And the UK will be following suit through The Environment Act 2021 transferring into legislation and regulation.Īccording to Kenoteq, the UK is the largest single brick market in Europe, with over 2.6 billion bricks used in 2019 in the UK. EU Legislation already requires 70% of all construction and demolition waste to be recycled ( source: European Comission). The solution targets the critical issues of legislation-led waste reduction, the shortage in supply of construction materials, and energy efficiency.Ĭonstruction, demolition and excavation were responsible for 62% of the UK’s total waste in 2018, according to DEFRA, with vast quantities of recycled material needing new avenues.

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