Stone can reenter the built environment as a go-to low-carbon structural material, but barriers must be overcome to make this a reality, say experts.

Even stone veneer tends to be pricier than other exterior siding materials. No design flexibility: Choose your stone ...

Stone is as elemental a building material as we have, McLennan says. In its simplest form, stone is cut from the Earth, tooled, and installed. That’s it.

Paine believes that, if the building industry embraced the natural variations and irregularities of stone, it could become the ultimate low-cost, low-carbon building material. “If we accept ...

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The early innovator was one of the first to manufacture and sell the concrete cast-stone building material. Its 1872 headquarters and showroom is the “earliest known concrete building in New York City ...