Results, impacts and lessons learned from technical assistance to non-fired brick production businesses

Joining the Evaluation Team were Dr. Thai Duy Sam - Vice Chairman, General Secretary of Viet Nam Association for Building Materials (Team Leader), Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Lam - Lecturer of National University of Civil Engineering, PMU representatives. The Team had working sessions with representatives of business leaders and visited production lines at Dai Dung green material JSC (Ho Chi Minh City), Biconsi building material JSC (Binh Duong Province), Tran Chau NFB and precast concrete structure plant (Ha Tinh Province), Lam Viet non-fired building material Co. Ltd (Phu Tho Province), Toan Cau building material JSC (Hoa Binh Province) and Thanh An investment and infrastructure development JSC (Thai Binh province).

 

From 2015 to 2019, the Project has provided technical assistance to 26 NFB production investors in making investment reports, supporting the preparation of concessional loan documents to the Viet Nam Environment Protection Fund, supporting in calculating and selecting the optimal material mix using blast furnace ash from thermal power plants to produce NFBs, training human resources to operate production lines, preparing applications for conformity certificates, transfering curing technology using solar energy. With the total capacity of NFB production lines of 1.2 billion standard brick units receiving technical support, the key results obtained from these demonstration and replication models are as follows:

 

 Direct emission reduction is 1,512,955 tonnes of CO₂ during the Project implementation period (2015-2019) and 10 years following (2020-2029).

 

 Saved 36,560 tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE) during the Project implementation period (2015-2019).

 

 NFB market share in 2019 is 28.5% (Increased 15.5% compared to 2015).

 

Visiting the fully automated NFB production line at Tran Chau NFB and precast concrete structure plant 

 

Dr. Thai Duy Sam - Vice Chairman, General Secretary of Viet Nam Association for Building Materials, Team Leader said: These are successful models in using concessional loans from the Environment Protection Fund who are innovative in NFB production with the support of the Project thereby gradually eliminate the production of traditional fired bricks, save raw materials, fuels and materials, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, contribute to the successful implementation of the Government's non-fired building material development program. These models should be replicated nationwide.

 

Dr. Thai Duy Sam - Team Leader in the interview

 

Participating in the mission were reporters of People's Television, Viet Nam Center for Science and Technology Communication, Viet Nam Journal of Science, Technology and Engineering (Ministry of Science and Technology), Investment Newspaper (Ministry of Planning and Investment), Industry and Trade Newspaper (Ministry of Industry and Trade) to collect information and photos about the results of these successful models, thereby prepare news, articles and media reports aiming to promote the production and use of NFB in Viet Nam./.
 

Major economic - technical results of businesses	Design capacity (Million of SBUs/year)	Month/ Year start of operation	GHG emission reduction (Tonnes of CO2)	Energy saving (TOE)
Dai Dung Apply NFB curing technology using solar energy	110 (3 lines)	Sep/2018	35,167.00	6,420.34
Biconsi Shift production from fired bricks to NFBs and effectively use concessional loans from the Environment Protection Fund	55	Aug/2018	17,583.50	3,210.17
Tran Chau Apply automation technology for NFB  production and effectively use concessional loans from the Environment Protection Fund	110	Sep/2017	35,167.00	6,420.34
Lam Viet Effectively use concessional loans from the Environment Protection Fund	15	Jun/2018	4,795.50	875.50
Toan Cau Invest in automatic production technology, improve labour productivity and reduce the number of workers	150	Jul/2018	47,955.00	8,755.02
Thanh An Invest in 100% automatic production line and reduce the number of workers, use ash & slag to produce NFBs	50	Jun/2018	15,985.00	2,918.34