The Stone Collective at Footprint 2025

The Stone Collective at Footprint 2025 - Two days, two talks, two Chairs, six speakers and too many reasons to count for why we should all be building in stone.

It was noticeable how many sustainability leads present for the two days of Footprint in the historic setting of Old Billingsgate wanted to learn more about how stone is set to play a vital role in building a low-carbon future.

The Stone Collective spoke to a full house and discussed how new ways of thinking aligned to new technologies are changing the way we build in stone. We heard about Groupwork's 10-storey block of flats in Finchley Road, north London, built with load-bearing larvikite stone from Lundhs quarry in Norway and expertly engineered by Webb Yates. 

Together, we reimagined the future of stone as a utilitarian material and considered the concept that a brick can be a stone - and visa versa - and a stone can be an ashlar, with all of them a humble piece of rubble walling for the next century.