Sustainability

For over 100 years, Brett has embraced its corporate and social responsibilities to customers, the community and to the environment. Brett is a business proud of its independent status, strong values, and a real, tangible passion for a sustainable future.

With that philosophy firmly in place, we continue to work to reduce our impact on the environment, minimising our energy usage and maximising the recyclability of our materials; developing product solutions and services to enhance the built environment and the lives of the people who use it.

Working with Brett Landscaping enables the creation of sustainable developments. Particularly those projects that have been commissioned under the Code for Sustainable Homes or the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method.

 

View our Sustainability Policy

View our British Precast Sustainability Charter Certificate

View our EPD for Generic Concrete Paving Products

British Precast Concrete Federation Sustainability Charter

Brett is a proud signatory to the BPCF Sustainability Charter, a directive by which its Member companies demonstrate their motivation to go beyond legislation, undertaking voluntary actions to improve performance on a range of sustainability issues.

 

Below are just some of the principles that we have adopted:

 

  • Develop products that improve the quality and sustainability of the built environment
  • Liaise effectively with local communities to foster mutual understanding and respect
  • Manage all waste streams effectively and minimise waste disposed to landfill
  • Measure, report and improve performance on sustainability issues
  • Minimise pollution and emissions associated with production and transportation
  • Operate in a responsible manner to protect employees, contractors and visitors
  • Operate to the highest ethical standards necessary to develop a skilled and competent workforce.

 

View the Full certification awarded to Brett Landscaping

BRE Green Guide

The BRE Green Guide to Specification provides an independent assessment and endorsement of the law for the environmental impact of construction materials. Materials and components are assessed in terms of their environmental impacts, across their entire life cycles. The guide provides easy-to-use guidance on how to make the best environmental choices when selecting construction materials and components.

The information helps specifiers to design, construct and manage buildings to reduce environmental impacts. These rankings are presented on an A+ to E scale, based on life cycle assessments (LCA), using environmental profiles methodology. The guide covers a range of generic building types and elements.

Most Brett products are top rated, enabling you to specify our hard landscaping systems with the confidence of achieving an A or A+ Green Guide rating. In turn, this positively contributes when constructing specifications using BREEAM to assess the sustainability characteristics of the structure and its hard landscaping.

Printed versions can be purchased on www.brebookshop.com or click on the link to visit the ‘BRE Green Guide to Specification’ website.

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