Many designers and builders are focusing on the construction ofhigh-performanceornet-zero-energy (NZE) buildings, which emit as little carbon as possible when in use. This is an important effort in reducing operational carbon. However, while these buildings focus on operational carbon, embodied car...
Hacker JN, De Saulles TP, Minson AJ, Holmes MJ (2008) Embodied and operational carbon dioxide emissions from housing: a case study on the effects of thermal mass and climate change. Energ Build 40(3):375–384 View ArticleJ.N. Hacker, T.P. De Saulles, A.J. Minson, M.J. Holmes, ...
The Reframed Initiative aims to transform how we retrofit multi-unit residential buildings, exploring optimal solutions that address a range of considerations including operational carbon, embodied carbon, seismic safety, climate resilience, cost. In our role as the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) consu...
4.1.1. Direct carbon emissions In this study, the CEF method is used to account for the seven regions of China in blocks according to formula (1)-(3). The Carbon Emission Factor method is currently more widely used and operational, and is convenient, straightforward and highly credible. Thi...
Actually, the conclusions don't support China's "low carbon" cities program very much at all, since the "low carbon" this program focuses only on operational energy and ignores the embodied energy consequences of urban development. Excuse me? The test city for the model was Suzhou (Figure 1...
Embodied carbon is a challenge we have to address “Operational carbon is the first thing that we need to tackle in my view, but just like so many things in the climate action space, it’s not an either/or conversation.” Zack credits the Living Building Challenge for the new zero carbon...
Furthermore, the embodied carbon (EC) and embodied energy (EE) of buildings are gaining significance, considering the improvement in the operational energy performance of new buildings. Therefore, early design decisions regarding the structural system selection of tall buildings significantly affect the ...
Evaluation of carbon impacts during building design has for too long unilaterally focused on the operational carbon impacts through the application of Energy Efficiency Measures (EEMs), e.g...Shadram, FarshidLuleå University of TechnologyMukkavaara, JaniLuleå...
Crawford and Treloar [29] suggest that, in Australia, the embodied energy contained in a building is 20–50 times the annual operational energy needed for the building. Pacheco-Torgal et al. [30] quantified the influence of operational energy vs. embodied energy with the new Energy Performance...
Fig. 4. Carbon footprint of major soy importing countries, as CO2-eq. per soy-eq. (t t−1) (b), and the total import quantities of soybean and derivatives (oil and cake), as soy-eq., in the period 2010–2015 (Mt) (a). At the supra-national level, the European Union (EU)...