Upcoming events
- Natural Stone Show, ExCeL London 15-17 March 2011
- Technipierre, Leige, Belgium 31 March-2 April 2011
- National Floor Show, NEC 7-9 September
- Marble, Stone & Technology Fair, Istanbul 25-28 November
- Marmomacc, Verona, Italy 29 Sept-2Oct
- Hard Landscaping Show, Coventry 23-24 February 2011
- Stonetech, Beijing 20-23 April 2011
- Xiamen Stone Fair 6-9 March 2011
- Granite & Stone Exhibition, Libya 25-28 October
- StoneMart, Jaipur, India 20-23 January 2011
- Vitoria Stone Fair, Brazil 15-18 February 2011
...to Natural Stone Specialist, the magazine for the whole of the stone industry in the UK and Ireland
The 15th Natural Stone Awards to celebrate the use of stone in all aspects of building take place at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London on 26 November. This is the natural stone industry’s showcase to demonstrate to the world what can be achieved by constructing in natural stone. Categories in the Awards cover new build, conservation, interiors and hard landscaping. There is special recognition of the talents of the stonemason in the Craftsmanship Award. Individual seats or whole tables for the celebratory lunch can be booked with Stone Federation Great Britain. Click here to download an application form, click here to go to the Stone Federation website or call Kelly on Tel: 01303 856123 to reserve your place at this glittering highlight of the stone industry calendar.
Stone in all its various forms – sandstone, limestone, marble, granite, travertine, slate… – is the low carbon footprint material of choice for so much construction, conservation, interior design, hard landscaping, roofing, memorialisation, and public and private art. Unlike man-made products, stone is a truly natural product simply taken from the ground and processed using low energy machinery into the products we use – cladding, kitchen worktops, bathroom vanity units, the walls and floors of wet rooms, shower trays, paving, kerbs and setts and so much more. There is no high energy transformation taking place in fuel-burning kilns that pump vast amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere nor polluting chemicals to bind it all together. Nature has already done all the work of making the material in its plethora of truly unique and environmentally friendly forms.
The evidence showing how environmentally friendly stone is, is increasing. In March, Historic Scotland published Embodied Carbon in Natural Building Stone in Scotland, which gives figures that show the CO2 equivalent of stone is lower than any other major building material, as does the University of Bath's Inventory of Carbon & Energy (ICE), an up-date of which is due out this summer. The Embodied Carbon in Natural Building Stone in Scotland report can be downloaded from SISTech's website. Click here to go to the download area. And ICE is available on the University of Bath website. To go to it click here.
In the current issue...N
- SPAB Autumn Repair Course: 27 September–2 October
- TTA complains to BBC about tiling 'piece of cake' comments
- Kirkstone at new university building
- York carving festival a hit
- Safety notice issued on MEWPs
- HSE clamp-down shuts one in five sites
- Stone Edge to recreate Sandown Hall
- Forest Pennant pave the way to the Eisteddfod
- Marshalls have paved the Monopoly Board
- UK Stone Show signs agreement with Verona
- Domus introduce StoneGlaze
- GBC calls for greater transparency of BREEAM
- Obituary : Cesare Lopez
- Worker’s skull crushed in fall from roof
- NSS Notice Board
- International dry stone walling conference comes to UK
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