Sunday, September 2, 2007

Visit to Wienerberger: Sustainable Brick Manufacture






Often in the last weeks we find ourselves “off track” or not working directly on the panels. These side ventures keep us fresh and energized.

.ekwc has made arrangements for us to meet Geert Segers from Wienerberger. As Geert Segers states after I describe our project working with bone china, making translucent panels 1. 8 mm in thickness, we move tons of clay each day.

Our journey to the factory one day during our last week at ekwc, reveals a deeper understanding of how sustainable Wienerbergers’ practices for processing clay, creating building materials and a vision to lead in providing solutions for the Netherlands commitment for zero carbon foot print by 2010 is evident in all facet of the factory tour.

As well, we see first hand a large dike, and begin to decipher the landscape in a renewed eye to water management. Everywhere, one can now decode the dikes from simple canal banks, to the small bumps between rows of trees lining a marshy wet land between the two parallel lines.

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