Green shoots of sustainability

By Robert Booth Robert Booth 2004-10-15T00:00:00

Here’s a statistic for you. Every year in the UK, 3.5 billion bricks are made and 2.5 billion are destroyed. It doesn’t take a genius to work out the absurdity of such an equation, especially as the construction industry comes under growing pressure to do more than just curb its ...

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