Lafarge showcase sustainable housing solutions

Company launches groundbreaking partnership to link critical aspects of the UK construction train 

LAFARGE were among the ‘champions of sustainable construction’ celebrated at a high-profile parliamentary reception in London yesterday. Arranged by The Green Organisation, the event at the House of Commons featured some of the companies that have most impressed in the Built Environment section of the Green Organisation’s Green Apple Awards, one of the world’s most popular environmental campaigns.

Leicestershire-based Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK (LACUK) were among the firms presented to Parliament, allowing them to showcase their contribution to the UK’s future homes, communities and business centres by developing innovative products that will play a part in ensuring the UK meets its goal to achieve an 80% carbon reduction by 2050.

Lafarge also used the reception to launch a groundbreaking partnership that will lead the way in developing pioneering yet easily scalable and commercially viable solutions to constructing new housing which will meet the Government’s target of all new homes being ‘zero carbon’ by 2016.

Stuart Wykes, managing director of the aggregates business of LACUK, said: ‘Success for the UK in achieving the target of an 80% carbon reduction by 2050 will require the support of innovative and environmentally responsible companies in the fields of architecture, construction and property management.

‘We plan to use our experience of creating sustainable and ever more environmentally sound products, together with our expertise in building materials, to forge ahead with a groundbreaking partnership we are developing with SEArch Architects and a major UK house builder.

‘This partnership will connect critical aspects of the UK construction chain from leading sustainable design, building materials innovation and quality construction. It will lead the way in showing how intelligent design and the inventive use of heavy and innovative building materials can provide new solutions to low-impact, fossil fuel-free living, answering the challenge of how we safeguard finite natural resources.’