Specifying sustainable steel: revised CARES Sustainable Constructional Steel certification scheme

Will Arnold, Jenny Burridge, David Moore, Keerthi Ranasinghe and Sean Wilkins argue that engineers should always look to specify the most suitable material for a particular project, and offer advice on how to use materials efficiently once a choice is made.

Discover how leading engineers from the UK and North America are turning low-carbon ambition into practical reality through material innovation, digital technology, embodied carbon reduction, retrofit and reuse.

This article provides a snapshot of some of the outputs developed in the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products' DISRUPT II project to recover more steel from demolitions.