Impressive Water Conservation at Boral Roof Tile Plant

This article explains how Boral, Australia’s largest supplier of building and construction materials has delivered more than a 65% reduction in mains water usage at its Carole Park roof tile plant in Queensland over the past 12 months. The article discusses how the sweeping changes at Boral have been a result of stage 4 and 5 water restrictions, and explains how Boral has implemented the changes across its business by developing a ‘Boral water grid’ and completing ‘water efficiency management plants’ for all of its sites in South East Queensland.

Boral has made water conservation one of its five key sustainability priority areas. While the article doesn’t talk specifically about construction, Boral has set an industry wide example in terms of sustainability as the largest supplier for the industry which will have potential flow on effects, increasing the ever mounding pressure for Construction companies and developers to explore environmentally friendly and energy saving alternatives in its developments. The stage 4 and 5 water restrictions currently in place in South East Queensland could quite feasibly be extended to other areas of Australia, forcing builders and other industries to consider their water usage and take active steps to conserve water.

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