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Bricks are the most commonly used construction material in the UK. They have supported a traditional highly-skilled, craft-based industry making buildings that define the UK’s towns and cities. Their benefits are extensive — high durability, good thermal insulation, aesthetic and varied appeal, inherent fire resistance, great sound insulation and low maintenance requirements. But today, they’ve become less prevalent and associated with a carbon-intensive manufacturing process and perceived high manufacturing cost. Could the UK’s supply of net zero energy change this and fire up an industry that could benefit society? A new electric-fired brick kiln that can fire bricks at lower temperatures than conventional fossil-fuelled kilns. Not sufficiently hot for traditional bricks, but perfect for the lighter-engineered hollow clay blocks that vitrify at lower temperatures. The result would be a zero carbon-fired brick, that would be a direct replacement for a carbon-intensive concrete block. Put stock in hot bricks. “
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