The Natural Stone Specialist

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...to Natural Stone Specialist, the stone magazine serving the whole of the stone industry in the UK and Ireland, from extraction to design, since 1882

 

Pictured here is Rowan Swailes (left) a stonemasonry student of Moulton College who made the Business Initiative Award Trophy out of Portland Basebed limestone. With him is his tutor, Craig Murphy. The winner of the Trophy will be featured in NSS in February.

 

 

 

Improve your carbon footprint with stone

Stone in all its various forms – sandstone, limestone, marble, granite, travertine, slate and the rest – 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 – kitchen worktops, bathroom vanity units, wall and floor tiles, shower trays, paving, kerbs and setts, cladding 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 last year, 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), the latest version of which was published in the 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.

The Natural Stone Show will be back at ExCeL London in its usual two-yearly cycle in 2013. You can find out more about it on the Stone Show website, where there are also more pictures from this year's Show. Click here to pay it a visit.

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