Sustainable building materials: the choices we make

Alasdair Taylor from Light House Architecture & Science unpacks the environmental impacts of building a home, and offers four ideas to make the process more sustainable.

Alasdair Taylor

Every choice we make has its impact on the global environment, from tiny soot particles rising from your candle to the enormous coal plants still sputtering out electricity. The largest choice most people make is the largest thing many of us own: our homes. Consider the size of a building (let alone the cost!) and imagine the amount of work that went into it. The cutting of timber, the mining of gypsum, the wrapping rubber around the wires, the extrusion of aluminium window frames—each piece of the building has a story. All that work has an environmental burden, and it all adds up. But what is an environmental burden when it comes to our homes, and what would we do about it anyway? We will grapple with these questions and…

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Renew (Digital) - 1 Issue, 166 / Jan-Mar 2024

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