Stone Demonstrator: Albion Stone & Hutton Stone Featured in the BBC
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Albion Stone and Hutton Stone are proud to see both Heritage Portland Stone Bricks and Darney Heritage Stone Bricks featured in the recent BBC article. The Stone Demonstrator aims to inspire builders to consider stone as a sustainable and beautiful building material. The seamless blend of the two bricks symbolises the collaboration and shared achievements of both companies and continues the ongoing efforts of Brick From a Stone to promote natural stone in construction.
The Stone Demonstrator at Earl’s Court is a pioneering project aimed at showing how natural stone can be used in modern construction to drastically reduce carbon emissions. Located next to a modern tower block, the project highlights the environmental benefits of building with stone instead of steel, concrete, or clay bricks.
Natural stone has a substantially lower carbon footprint when compared to steel or concrete structures. The stone bricks demonstrate that standard-looking construction can be both beautiful and sustainable.
The project is designed by Amin Taha of Groupwork and engineered by Steve Webb, who emphasise that stone is a technologically viable, low-carbon alternative to conventional building materials. By using stone, construction can return to a more sustainable approach, similar to practices from 200 years ago.
The site, formerly the Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre, is part of a larger redevelopment plan to deliver 4,000 homes, 12,000 jobs, and 2.5 million square feet of workspace, aiming to demonstrate how future developments can go beyond net zero while maintaining aesthetic and structural quality.
