Sustainable materials – a pathway to zero carbon

Friday 28 May 2021

Peter Murray OBE

Co-Founder

Isobel Vernon-Avery

Consultant, Climate Change and Circular Economy
Arup

Graham Hurrell

Commercial Strategy Manager
Hydro Building Systems UK

Yara Machnouk

Environmental Design Engineer
Introba UK

Juliette Morgan

ESG Consultancy Director - Global
British Land

Thumbnail image: Hackbridge Primary School © Architype

Construction and building materials are a heavy source of carbon emissions. Tackling embodied carbon in the built environment sector has proofed to be one of the biggest challenge, as also outlined in the NLA Report Zero Carbon London.

So what are the most sustainable materials that can be adopted in our buildings to lower carbon emissions? How can we make sure we used more recycled, natural and low-carbon materials in our buildings? What are the barriers and challenges?

In this webinar we heard from built environment professionals that showed best practice in the use of low carbon materials in buildings.

PROGRAMME

00:00 Welcome from Chair
Peter Murray, Curator-in-Chief, New London Architecture

03:14 Material reuse in the built environment

Isobel Vernon-Avery, Consultant, Climate Change and Circular Economy, Arup

15:52 Recycling facades

Graham Hurrell, WICONA UK Sales Director at Hydro Building Systems UK

31:40 Sustainable materials

Yara Machnouk, Environmental Design Engineer, Elementa

46:41 Panel discussion
Speakers above plus:
Juliette Morgan, Head of Sustainable Development, British Land

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DONWLOAD ZERO CARBON LONDON

Insight

Zero Carbon London

London has committed to achieve net zero carbon targets by 2050, with the Mayor proposing to bring the deadline forward to 2030. Zero Carbon London offers an unprecedented insight into where the built environment profession is currently in the fight against climate change, and the measures that need to be prioritised in London to achieve this goal. In this report we present survey findings from ov...