Low-Carbon Architecture Prefers Natural Stone Which is Welcomed for

its Environmental-friendliness and Wholesomeness

The so-called low carbon economy refers to that with the idea of sustainable development as the guidance, technological innovation, system innovation, industrial transformation as well as other diversified means are employed to maximally reduce the consumption of coal, oil and other high-carbon energy, decrease exhaust and realize an economic development pattern which could help achieve mutual benefits for economic and social development and ecological environment. To develop low carbon economy is to actively shoulder the responsibility of environmental protection and meet the national requirements on energy conservation and consumption reduction on the one hand, and to adjust the economic pattern, improve the energy utilization, develop the infant industry and promote a conservation culture on the other. It is a real way to forsake the previous development pattern of first pollution and then treatment, first low-end and then high-end development, and first extensive and then intensive operation, and it is an inevitable choice to realize mutual benefits for economic development and resource and environmental protection.

Natural stone, as a noble construction decoration material, exerts relatively low impact on environment in stone mining, processing and other connections. Compressed stone production popularizes the multipurpose utilization technology of stone wastes and makes the use of stone more environmental-friendly. Employment of stone in construction has been a consensus in low carbon architecture.