'We shouldn't waste things,' insists Clive Nichol, founder and CEO of Fabrix which invests in and develops buildings. Two of the company's London projects reuse steel to adapt old buildings: at Roots in the Sky with Sheppard Robson, a transformation of old Blackfriars Crown Court, it will support the plant floors, and at 55 Great Suffolk Street it will make up the structure for a new external core designed by HawkinsBrown. Where to start? How does a project bring in reused steel? First it needs the will of those holding the purse strings. Nichol, who does that here, explains. 'In a project meeting, we saw we were breaking down the levels of embodied carbon. Steel was such a high polluter, but how could we bring down the carbon? In previous projects we had exposed old structures. So I asked the team: "Why don't we reuse some steel?".'
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