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The precast panels should also outlast the brick providing the hangers and mounts don't rust away.
Exactly... thereby making brick an unnecessary (at least in a few ways) expenditure.
People on this board are quick to criticize, but snap your fingers and make them a developer-- and I bet they'd be the one deciding to use precast brick instead of "real brick".
Part of architecture is making things attractive yet cost effective. This is, after all, the real world we live in.