Civil & Structural Engineering Senior Lecturer, Dr Danielle Densley Tingley has been investigating how to make buildings more sustainable by reusing and recycling everything in them, working on a project to collect information about the materials currently locked up in the UK’s existing building stock.
The construction industry is responsible for 40% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions. Instead of using new steel and concrete, the sustainable construction industry of the future will need to be a circular economy: reusing old buildings for new purposes where possible, and reusing building elements and materials from old buildings when new ones do become needed.
In an article she’s written for Futurum Careers, to encourage young people into STEM careers, Dr Densley Tingley explains more about construction and global warming and how researchers are looking for alternative building materials, moving towards a circular, low carbon construction industry in the future.
Read her article on the Futurum Careers website