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

The new edition of the Natural Stone Directory will be finished shortly. It is the most comprehensive source of information about the stone industry in the UK and Ireland available between two covers. In 200 pages are listed UK quarries, stone wholesalers, masons, machinery and equipment suppliers and organisations. Entry in it is free – just download, complete and return the appropriate form on the Directory page of this website. Click here to go to the Directory page.

The Directory is only produced every other year, so do not get left out. It goes to the printers shortly, so if you should be in it act now.

A listing in the Directory is free but there are also advertising opportunities available – to find out about them call Anna on Tel: 0115 945 3897 or send an email to anna@qmj.co.uk

 

 

Start preparing your entry now for BIA2012. You can download an entry form for the Business Initiative Award by clicking here, or on the picture of the Award trophy on the right.

 

 

 

Calculate your Carbon Footprint by downloading the CARBON CALCULATOR spreadsheet that is being made available to the stone industry by Forest Pennant. It was devised by Forest Pennant for the PAS 2050 certification it has achieved on its paving. You can also use it to get your carbon footprint accredited. Click here or on the picture of the spreadsheet to download a copy.

 

Stone is the most sustainable building material

 

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 to get a PDF of the ICE report, 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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