Hanson Brick & Tile launches online plant locator tool to help LEED® project coordinators identify regional materials

March 12, 2008

Hanson Brick & Tile, North America's largest brick manufacturer and a leading producer of concrete roof tile, has launched a new Web tool designed to help builders and architects identify brick and roof tile that qualifies as a regional material in the LEED-NC Materials and Resources category.

Users enter the zip or postal code of a project into the plant locator, which is located on the Hanson Brick and Hanson Roof Tile Web sites, to find the distance from Hanson plants in the region. LEED-NC deems materials regional if they are shipped to project sites within 500 miles of the manufacturing and extraction facility.

"Because Hanson plants and extraction sites are distributed across eight states and two Canadian provinces, our clay and limestone brick and concrete roof tile are intrinsically regional building materials in much of North America," said Patrick Kelly, a LEED Accredited Professional(TM) with Hanson who oversees the company's technical support and quality control in the North region.

"Using Hanson products may boost the average percentage of regional materials used on a project, and our new tool is an easy way for builders and architects to explore LEED points possibilities in cladding and roofing," Kelly added.

To earn points in the Materials and Resources category, LEED projects must tally all materials delivered to the project site and take the percentage of each material (based on cost) that is regional in content. If the total average is more than 10 percent, a project can earn one point; an average over 20 percent scores two points.

To use the online plant locators navigate to na.hansonbrick.com or www.hansonrooftile.com and click on the LEED plant locator button in the left hand menu.

Hanson Brick is North America's largest brick manufacturer, with approximately 1,600 employees and operations across the United States and Canada. The company provides its customers with superior selection and service, offering more than 1,000 styles of brick in five regional brick collections. Hanson Brick is based in Charlotte, N.C.

Hanson Brick is part of Hanson, one of the world's largest suppliers of heavy building materials to the construction industry. Hanson produces aggregates (crushed rock, sand and gravel), ready-mixed and precast concrete, asphalt and cement-related materials and a range of building products including concrete pipes, concrete pavers, tiles and clay bricks.

Hanson is part of the HeidelbergCement Group, which employs 70,000 people across five continents. Heidelberg has leading positions in concrete and heavy building products and is the global leader in aggregates.

Further information on Hanson can be found at na.hansonbrick.com

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