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What is the value of brick slips?
3 July 2024
Ibstock understands that the construction industry lags behind other sectors when it comes to investing for innovation. Throughout the value chain in construction we all should be evolving our technology to continue to meet and exceed the needs for productivity and sustainability in our built environment.
The evolution of brick slip production
We have continued in this vain by evolving the production process of brick slips to:
- Provide customers with a traditional authentic brick finish, but also enable a more modern installation approach. This will help meet the growing customer demand in mid to high rise new build and other key markets such as retrofit and the low rise modular offsite sector.
- Brick slips provide an authentic brick finish that will support planning applications, but also enable a more efficient installation for the targeted markets. Its light weight, promoting easier installation, manual handling, less waste in construction, as well as time efficiencies on construction sites.
- For mid to high rise buildings, retrofit and low rise modular, using Ibstock brick slips can significantly streamline the specification process. We use a variety of materials to match regional styles nationwide, ensuring our slips can perfectly complement existing, handset bricks.
- Creating a retrofit solution that not only meets energy performance requirements, but also gives new life to building aesthetics.
What is the value of a brick slip?
The product itself has great technical competencies but it also is a component that promotes a more productive manner of construction within the mid to high rise space. By opting for a slip system you can reduce costs of construction by increasing speed of installation and lowering the cost of preliminaries and other externalities that appear when you are on site for a long time.
The Lewisham exchange project by HTA Design LLP, Century Facades Limited and Vision took in an impressive 35 weeks to install and complete using the brick slip cladding.
Benefits of brick slips
- For Developers is more rent potential as people can move in earlier.
- For Contractors, lower site costs and easier installation.
- For Architects, the real brick finish and texture and brick forms are able to be accommodated.
Find out more about our brick slips range.
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