Building with Structural Stone

Using stone as a structural material has fallen out of favour, but the idea has been circulating for a while that stone should reclaim its place as a sustainable structural building material. France has been using stone as a load bearing or semi-load bearing material since the end of WW2, and in the UK Amina Tahas Groupwork architectural practice has been working closely with Steve Webb of Webb Yates and Pierre Badaud from the Stonemasonry Company Ltd to champion the use of stone as a loadbearing material. This white paper looks at the possibilities.