ABSTRACT

The brick has become a remarkable political symbol with the laying of the silver brick in Ayodhya, India, recently. A tangible material in this whole exercise; the humble, everyday ‘brick’became the symbol of nationalism. While this building material holds such a shiny political campaign in the form of a silver brick today, the on-ground situation of brick kilns is rather grim, which exploits labour and deteriorates the environment. To change this scenario there needs to be change in policy that includes an array of solutions for brick making, including Stabilised Compressed Earth Blocks, adobe etc. To keep a check on these ecological imbalances, firstly at policy level intervention, the government should initiate decentralised, smaller and regional production systems instead of global chains. Secondly, alternate construction materials should be made mainstream, and an array of innovative local technologies should be incorporated instead of propagating one chief solution, universally, for brick production. Absence of environmental emission policies and regulatory enforcement leave no incentive for brick manufacturers to adopt less polluting industries and the added lack of policies that address the demand-side issues, even though appropriate technologies may be present, make it worse. There is an urgent need to revamp the brick industry of the world, especially in the emerging economies where the next decades will see exponential growth.

摘要

最近，在印度阿约提亚铺设银砖时，这种砖已成为一个了不起的政治象征。整个练习中的有形材料；谦虚的日常“砖头”成为民族主义的象征。虽然今天这​​种建筑材料以银砖的形式进行了如此闪亮的政治运动，但砖窑的地面状况却相当严峻，这剥削了劳动力并破坏了环境。为了改变这种情况，需要改变政策，其中包括一系列用于制砖的解决方案，包括稳定的压缩土块，土坯等。要检查这些生态失衡，首先应在政策层面进行干预，政府应采取权力下放的措施。 ，较小和区域性的生产系统，而不是全球连锁店。第二，应将替代建筑材料作为主流，并应采用一系列创新的本地技术，而不是普遍推广砖头生产的一种主要解决方案。缺乏环境排放政策和法规执行没有动力促使砖块制造商采用污染较小的行业，而且即使可能存在适当的技术，也缺乏解决需求方问题的政策，这使情况变得更糟。迫切需要改造世界的制砖业，尤其是在新兴经济体中，在未来几十年中，这种经济将呈指数级增长。缺乏环境排放政策和法规执行没有动力促使砖块制造商采用污染较小的行业，而且即使可能存在适当的技术，也缺乏解决需求方问题的政策，这使情况变得更糟。迫切需要改造世界的制砖业，尤其是在新兴经济体中，在未来几十年中，这种经济将呈指数级增长。缺乏环境排放政策和法规执行没有动力促使砖块制造商采用污染较小的行业，而且即使可能存在适当的技术，也缺乏解决需求方问题的政策，这使情况变得更糟。迫切需要改造世界的制砖业，尤其是在新兴经济体中，在未来几十年中，这种经济将呈指数级增长。