Embodied Ecological Impacts

The impacts of the construction industry on nature reach far beyond the footprints of our towns and cities and they extend well beyond country borders.

The UK Green Building Council’s Embodied Ecological Impacts Knowledge Hub explores the impacts these materials have on global biodiversity and looks at how we can seek to reduce them.

Namely, it proposes the use of the ‘Mitigation Hierarchy’, so that we favour the reuse or recycling of materials before new extraction.