Meet the UK materials start-up chasing the Prince of Wales’s million-pound prize

By Daniel Gayne2022-12-02T07:01:00

Ahead of the Earthshot Prize 2022 ceremony tonight, we spoke to Dr Natasha Boulding, co-founder of Low Carbon Materials, about her firm’s plans to green the building materials sector

Imagine the shortlist for a glitzy, televised awards bash, organised by royalty and headlined by Billie Eilish, and your first thought is unlikely to have much to do with the rather more workaday world of building materials.

But this evening, in Boston, Massachsetts, a Durham-based concrete start-up will be one of just 14 international finalists in the running for the second annual Earthshot Prize, an award established by the then Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, with the Royal Foundation in 2020.

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