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If your job is to work with or specify materials such as concrete and steel on large construction projects, how do you avoid creating a huge carbon footprint every time you show up for work?

That鈥檚 the dilemma facing professionals in the industry, and one that engineers Anna Beckett and Tom Webster at Webb Yates consider all the time. 

Here in an extended interview for our subscribers, they share their knowledge about construction materials and how to get the best out of them.

They are realistic about the challenges when trying to build to net zero targets, as Webster acknowleges: 鈥淚f concrete was a country, it would be third place of all-time carbon emissions producers, after China and America鈥�. But they also see huge potential to adapt, reuse, recycle and reinvent materials and products. 

Listen to how they believe construction firms can help work on innovations by developing 鈥減roof of concepts鈥� - and to them talk about their own experience using stone as their prefered material on their well-known project 15 Clerkenwell Close.