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It is widely known that concrete is the construction industry's most used material. Unfortunately, it also has a sizeable carbon footprint, being responsible for about 8% of the world's CO_2 emissions. As the UK concrete industry moves towards net zero, various concrete products are now ...
Stories about embodied carbon in architecture and design including initiatives to calculate greenhouse gas emissions caused by supply chains.
Concrete Glass Timber Plastics Metals Minerals and stone Many more…The energy data provides the energy consumed to make a building material. This then gives rise to embodied carbon emissions, contributing to global warming and climate change.Creating...
Traditional concrete is responsible for about 8% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Image © Janica Rina on Unsplash Real estate actors have also expressed fear of what they’ll find if theydomeasure embodied carbon. While firms may be intimi...
However, the large variability and the combined effect of different reinforced concrete design parameters during the production stage presents considerable effects on the total embodied carbon of buildings, which were not fully explored in literature. Thus, this study aims to develop a systematic ...
Embodied Carbon of Construction Waste (Vancouver Coastal Health) We analyzed the embodied carbon of construction waste from Vancouver General Hospital's Operating Room Renewal project. For each key waste material category (i.e. steel, aluminum, concrete, wood, glass, brick, and asphalt), we mode...
Preliminary results indicate that the embodied energy and embodied carbon associated with the construction of the timber office block are 2,911 GJ and 287.9 T CO2e respectively which are to be compared to the concrete equivalent structure. Should carbon sequestration be included ...
The results showed that steel concrete produced fewer CEs per unit area. Dezhi et al. (2015) established a “database of life-cycle carbon emission factors for buildings” in China. Using an LCA model, Zhang and Wang (2016b) calculated CEs throughout the entire life cycle of China’s ...
(SCMs) in concrete production to mitigate the substantial carbon emissions of Singapore’s building and construction sector. The research focuses on Ground Granulated Blast-furnace Slag (GGBFS), waste glass powder, and calcined marine clay as alternative SCMs, aiming to reduce environmental impact and...