Britain's building standards are unfairly penalizing the brick industry, argues opinion piece
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This opinion piece argues that British building standards are unfairly penalizing the brick industry by assuming brick buildings last only 60 years, which the author claims is factually wrong and based on flawed data. The article warns that these "heartless and overly complex standards" are destroying jobs and risking thousands more, calling it a "catastrophe happening in slow motion" that requires urgent government action to save the British brick industry.
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· 5 pulledThis is a catastrophe happening in slow motion which is about to get much worse.
We must act now before we murder the British brick industry.
This is a textbook example of Broken Britain.
Layers of heartless and overly complex standards are doing far more harm than good.
The industry standards are factually wrong. They are based on a lie.
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