Building material industry must go green: Deputy PM
Vietnam’s building material industry should invest in the production of environmentally friendly building materials, according to Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung.
Vietnam’s building material industry should invest in the production of environmentally friendly building materials, said Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung. (Photo: VGP)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam’sbuilding material industry should invest in the production of environmentallyfriendly building materials, according to Deputy Prime Minister Trinh DinhDung.
Dung said at a conference on December 12 that buildingmaterials accounted for 70 percent of the value of a construction project. In thepast years, investment in building materials had developed strongly, basicallymeeting the domestic demand.
However, he said investment in producing these materials hadachieved many results, but the sector still lacked new materials,friendly-environmental building materials at a cheap price, and high-gradebuilding materials.
Investment in the sector was done spontaneously, notaccording to plan, leading to overproduction, illegal exploitation of materialsor exploitation with licences but damaging the environment.
The Deputy Prime Minister requested state management andbusinesses should co-ordinate more to improve efficiency, invest in theproduction of environmental-friendly building materials and select newmaterials instead of traditional.
Construction materials must be developed to meet demand foruse at home and abroad, Dung said. At the same time, the sector shouldgradually renovate production technologies, save energy and promote the use ofunbaked building materials to replace baked materials.
Dung asked the Ministry of Construction to coordinate withother ministries and localities to update plans on building-materialproduction.
The ministry will review factories causing environmentalpollution and control the exploitation of stones, gravel and sand.
At the conference, Minister of Construction Pham Hong Hasaid production of construction material had improved significant to reachregional and world standards.
Before 2010, Vietnam had to import some key buildingmaterials, such as cement, construction glass and ceramic tiles. Since then,the building-material industry had developed strongly by adopting many regionaland world advanced technologies, Ha said.
Many experts claim the production of traditional buildingmaterials had used large amounts of raw materials and energy, contributing toenvironmental pollution.
The Ministry of Construction will urge its agencies tocontinue researching and renovating technologies to create green, clean andeffective products and sustainable development.-VNA
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Vietnam’s building material industry should invest in the production of environmentally friendly building materials, said Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung. (Photo: VGP) 
