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 stone products, 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.
As rising of people’s living standard, they gradually pay attention on the design of residential building environment, and strive to create a comfortable, elegant living and working environment. However, the material for interior decoration is mostly made by chemical material. Some of them itself contains toxic substances, and they are continually volatile the toxic components to indoor, which has bad effect on human body. 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. All in all, natural stone is the most sustainable building material.
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