UK development teams are facing a tough equation: tighter financing, higher delivery risk, and increasing scrutiny on ESG and embodied carbon
While most decarbonisation efforts focus on operational energy, a major lever is often underestimated: material choice. It shapes project cost and sequence, embodied emissions, and increasingly the risk profile that influences approvals, funding terms, and portfolio resilience.
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One of the most overlooked components sits under our feet. Cement screed accounts for at least 5% of a building’s emissions, and construction sites frequently lose weeks waiting for drying before follow-on trades can proceed. Dry screed systems can reduce delays but are often too expensive for adoptation at scale.
BioScreed is a practical alternative designed for real projects under real constraints. Developed by ParaStruct, BioScreed is a circular, machinable screed that combines the economic advantages of conventional systems with the ecological benefits typically associated with dry solutions, while improving timline certainty.
Why BioScreed for your next project
- Timber construction and retrofitting advantage: minimal construction moisture and walkable after 24 hours, helping you de-risking sequencing, reducing downtime and solving a critical challenge.
- Circular, low-carbon material strategy: uses wood residual streams and a purely mineral low-carbon binder, without cement, organic binders, additives, accelerators, or polymers. On top, BioScreed is soothing for the feet and can help reduce heating demand.
- Carbon sink performance: stores up to 350 kg CO₂e per m³, with a reported Δ 660 kg CO₂e per m³ versus cement screed.
- Fits your standard delivery model: supplied as market standard silo and bagged goods for conventional handling and site workflows.
- Ready for all building variants: suitable for timber, concrete, and prefab construction, as well as refurbishment and extensions. Designed for bonded, floating, and heated screed builds. EN 13813 compliant.
Let’s qualify a fit in an online conversation, or at CTS London in person (24–25 March 2026)
If you are a general contractor, site lead, designer, or developer working on projects where future-fitness, ESG outcomes and improving financing conditions matter, we would like to speak with you. ParaStruct can provide project-specific impact and resource balances to support decision-making and reporting.
Email for a qualified introduction to stefan.watzke@parastruct.com and book a short call, reply with two preferred time windows and we will confirm a meeting.
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