Daniel Hess, Sustainability Specialist REPM, discusses how and why real estate investors need to start tackling their embodied carbon emissions.
Calculating the embodied carbon costs of retrofit The drive to reduce carbon emissions from domestic housing has led to a recent shift of focus from new-‐build to retrofit. However there are two significant differences. Firstly more work is needed to retrofit existing housing to the sa... D ...
Measuring embodied carbon is complicated. It requires tracking materials through fantastically elaborate manufacturing supply chains. With so many variables, “the precision of a great deal of ecodata is low,” writes British materials scientist Michael Ashby in his bookMaterials and the Environment(But...
With the rapid growth of China's foreign trade scale, the embodied carbon emissions in China's exports show a significant upward trend, which has been experiencing a considerable increase of researchers' attention. This study attempts to measure the embodied carbon emissions in China's exports ...
Concrete has high amounts of embodied carbon. These concrete slabs will be reused in Sasaki’s Ellinikon Metropolitan Park in Athens, Greece. Image © Sasaki In the past, LCAs have typically focused on buildings, but Carlisle andlandscape architectsare leading a shift to whole project LCAs, ...
To undertake the calculation, you need to check that the functional or declared units between the material quantities and carbon factors are aligned (for example, if you have a volume (m3) of concrete, you need to multiply it by its density to get the weight (kg)). ...
This is a result of the material’s uses (insulation, concrete, and steel) and the proportion of those building elements compared to the remaining elements. This means that just 36% of the total building elements can make up to 80% of the embodied carbon of a building....
1, the government subsidises financial institutions that have invested in carbon emission reduction in buildings and uses reward and penalty contracts to encourage construction enterprises to reduce carbon emissions. At the same time, financial institutions will also invest in carbon emission reduction in...
Embodied Carbon calculations are based on: Thermal Properties according to the Energy Analytical Model (Revit Material, Schematic Type, or Conceptual Type). EC Definition mapped to that Material. Schematic types defined in Energy Settings are the...
In New York, reusing existing furniture reduces costs and embodied carbon for the renovation. In Kansas City, repurposed wood from our previous office found new life throughout the new space. Our new studios also were informed by our research and work into neurodiversity. Hypo- and ...