Steel Backed Brick

Across Australia brick is re-emerging not as a conventional building material, but as a deliberate architectural language of texture, memory and craft. Sculptural curved façades and adaptive reuse projects are utilising the versaility of brick to ground contemporary developments within the urban landscape.

Steel Backed Brick has over 20 years of onsite experience supporting some of the country’s most technically demanding brick cladding and lightweight brick systems through specialist cutting and façade preparation services.

“We cover the whole industry,” said Operations Manager Irine Klar. “From a backyard feature wall to large-scale restaurants and major commercial projects, and everything in between. We understand the impact of product delays and inaccurate supply on a project, so we make sure that bricklayers are working efficiently and effectively, without setbacks on site.”

That experience is best illustrated through the projects Steel Backed Brick has delivered. At Sydney’s Central Station, the company was contracted to cut 60,000 individual bricks into 10 different angle configurations ranging from just 2mm to 19mm to create an extraordinary animated artwork mural embedded into precast concrete panels. Designed by artist Bronwyn Bancroft, the installation depicts Aboriginal artwork that appears to materialise as trains pass by. The entire brick cutting scope was completed within a three-month turnaround.

At the Parkview Northwest Quarter project, Steel Backed Brick spent 18 months regrooving 180,000 brick faces and 45,000 corners to bring imported bricks into compliance with Australian standards, with zero tolerance for error. While at Seed Heritage in Pitt Street Mall, the team in-stalled a brick cladding facade designed to evoke the heritage aesthetic of a building predating the Westfield development surrounding it.

Steel Backed Brick works closely with recycled brick suppliers across New South Wales and Victoria, and ensures that every by-product of the cutting process, from brick offcuts to water and cutting blades, is recycled or repurposed.

For more information contact Steel Backed Brick, 36 Princes Street, Riverstone NSW 2765, email sales@sbbv.com.au, phone 02 9627 4116, website www.sbbv.com.au