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16 Jan 2025

Themes announced for the 2025 Stone Show & Hard Surfaces Seminar Programme

Themes announced for the 2025 Stone Show & Hard Surfaces Seminar Programme

We're delighted to announce the themes for the free-to-attend sessions that will take place in the Stone Show Seminar Theatre as part of this year's show. 

Taking place from 7-9 May at Excel, London, the seminar programme features nine sessions over three days, giving insights into the key developments that will shape and transform the stone industry over the next decade, as speakers and panels explore decarbonization, sustainable design, digitalization and much more...

Highlights from the 2023 Seminar Programme

 

Wednesday 7 May

Natural Stone: The Low Carbon Construction Solution

This brings together some of the leading voices around the topic of using natural stone to decarbonise the built environment and explore some of the resources and studies that demonstrate the impressive sustainability credentials of natural stone.

2024 Natural Stone Awards: The Industry Choice

Each of the 2024 Natural Stone Awards category winners have gone into a public vote to find the industry’s favourite project. This session will feature presentations from the architects behind some of these award-winning schemes as well as the Natural Stone Awards: The Industry Choice presentation.

Stone Federation Student Architect Prize

Stone Federation are passionate about inspiring the next generation of architectural talent to utilise the beauty, sustainability and versatility of natural stone. The Stone Federation Student Architect Prize will celebrate those designs which demonstrate the use of natural stone to deliver a sustainable project, grounded in its locale that addresses a current challenge faced by the built environment.

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Thursday 8 May

Using the Standards to Deliver Sustainable Projects

This will look at the how the latest updates to the British Standards and industry best practice guidelines can help architects, designers and specifiers deliver more sustainable projects, and will cover recent revisions to paving design and internal cladding guidelines.

The Changing Face of UK Quarrying

Exploring how modern technologies and efficiencies have enabled the UK quarrying operation to deliver some of the lowest carbon products available globally. It will ‘myth bust’ some of the preconceptions that people might have about the practice of quarrying and UK quarrying and introduce some of the new products being produced by the quarries.

Structural stone: The New Horizon

Over the past few years there has been a growing momentum of research, conferences and articles around the impressive sustainability credentials of load-bearing or structural stone projects. Amin Taha’s 15 Clerkenwell Close project undoubtedly brought this way of using stone to the headlines. This session will unpack some of the exciting developments around this conversation.

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Friday 9 May

Uncovering the UK’s Forgotten Stones

The UK is home to perhaps the richest geology on the planet, and this session will look at some of the schemes in place and being developed to fully utilise our indigenous natural stone as well as discussing the challenges faced of the commercial growth of the UK stone market.

Natural Stone and Retrofit: A Natural Fit

As part of the efforts to reduce the carbon impacts of the built environment, there is a fresh drive for clients to prioritise the retrofitting of existing buildings over demolition and rebuild. This session will explore some of the key topic around this conversation.

Emerging Talent Award: Celebrating and Inspiring the Next Generation of Stone Industry Talent

Alongside the presentation of the Emerging Talent Award, this session will explore what the industry is doing to invest in the next generation and discuss the challenges of training and talent retention and how the industry is looking to solve these.

 


The full speaker programme will be announced in March. 


 

Thinking of exhibiting?

If you’d like to discuss taking part as an exhibitor, call the team on +44 (0)115 865 8283 or email DavidCharlotte or Matt for the latest stand availability. Enquire here and we’ll get back to you shortly.

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7 – 9 May 2025  |  London ExCeL  |  co-located with UK Construction Week​​​​​​

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