Quarrying Stone
Creates noise, pollution, harms biodiversity, creates vibrations in to the ground and is a visual eyesore.
Follow the design guide section 1 to mitigate some of these affects: Download design guide
Although in order to create concrete 4 different quarries are needed, whilst for stone only 1 is needed. Therefore the amount of quarries will reduce.
Choosing natural stone can be more expensive
Shown below through the choice of roofing material
Currently a lot of stone is imported due to these high prices
Diagram below shows slate origins
Labour costs associated with Stone can be higher than other materials
In some regions clay sources are closer than stone sources eg. London
Clay bricks are also a major part of the UK’s building history
Although we can build with stone bricks
More information can be found through Polycor’s website : https://www.polycor.com/
They are stronger, carry less embodied carbon and come in a variety of colours and shapes.
Although currently the UK does not have a supplier of stone bricks
Therefore they would currently need to be imported
Due to the amount of cuts needed to create stone bricks, it can create a lot of waste-age in the form of stone dust and off-cuts.
Although solutions to this can be viewed in the diagram below:
