Carbon saving is high on the agenda for the property industry in 2023 but when it comes to refurbishing old buildings, developers need a bit of imagination.
"There is no large scale slab manufacturing facility in the UK,” he says. “The sad reality is that everything that comes into people’s kitchens and offices in the UK is primarily imported.
"That has to stop. If we want to make things sustainable then the UK needs to have its own manufacturing facility and what could be better than manufacturing using waste materials?” He adds:"We’ve done trials, we’ve invested in machinery to prove it can be done. The investment required to set up a full scale manufacturing facility in the UK would be somewhere in the region of £1.25m.
"With that facility a company like ourselves could produce somewhere in the region of £25m worth of raw material a year and that would be very profitable and that plant would essentially pay for itself within the first 18 months.
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