1. TRADITIONAL MATERIALS

2. ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS

3. DESIGN A LOW CARBON BUILDING

1. TRADITIONAL MATERIALS

Introduction

Traditional Materials. We call them that because they’re the materials that we have used for a long time, sometimes a very long time, to make buildings.

There are lots of good reasons for using them, as you will see, but nowadays we need to think about their impact on the environment, before we carry on using them as before.

So let’s find out what that means and a little more about each material…