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15 Jun 2026


Manufacturer Spotlight:Designing brick facades for a lower-carbon future

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Designing brick facades for a lower-carbon future


As sustainability continues to influence design and specification decisions, the construction industry faces an important challenge: creating buildings that perform today while contributing to a lower-carbon future.

Through our Together to Zero programme, Vandersanden is working towards climate neutrality by 2050, investing in lower-carbon products, energy-efficient manufacturing and renewable energy generation.

Discover how our latest sustainability initiatives are helping architects and specifiers create more sustainable buildings and communities.

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A Shared Ambition for Lower-Carbon Construction

Creating a more sustainable built environment has become a shared ambition across the construction industry, with material selection and manufacturing processes playing an increasingly important role.

Through Together to Zero, Vandersanden is investing in solutions that support this transition in practice. From narrow facing bricks and brick slips that use fewer raw materials and less energy, to automation, prefabricated facade solutions and climate-adaptive paving, we're helping improve resource efficiency across the construction process. Combined with investment in energy-efficient manufacturing technologies, renewable energy generation and innovations such as Pirrouet®, our CO₂-negative facing brick, these initiatives demonstrate how material choice, production and construction methods can contribute to a more sustainable built environment.

Together, these actions are helping turn the ambition of climate neutrality into practical progress.

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Sustainability Report 2025: Progress Towards Climate Neutrality

Sustainability is increasingly influencing material selection, making it important to understand the commitments and actions behind the products you specify

Our latest Sustainability Report provides insight into Vandersanden's journey towards climate neutrality by 2050, highlighting the investments, innovations and long-term ambitions supporting the transition to more sustainable construction..

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RIBA CPD

RIBA Certified CPDS: Sustainable Facade Design
Explore sustainable facade design through two RIBA-certified CPDs from Vandersanden: Brick: Circularity, Sustainability and Innovation and Carbon Negative Brick Solutions.

Available online or in practice, both sessions provide valuable technical insight into the role of brick in sustainable design and specification, supporting informed project decisions and ongoing professional development.

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Your Specification Support contact
From early design discussions through to project specification, Vandersanden works closely with architects and specifiers to help realise design intent with confidence.

As Head of Specification at Vandersanden UK, Mike Trott provides expert guidance on brick selection, technical considerations and sustainable facade solutions, supporting projects at every stage of the specification process.

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Vandersanden UK Limited, 16 Stocks Bridge Way, Compass Point Business Park, St. Ives, PE27 5JL

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