Reducing Embodied Carbon The creation of a habitat, whether it be a building, a house, or any other structure, involves four primary stages - study, design, construction, and use. Each of these stages presents opportunities to reduce carbon emissions and promote susta...
These categories are the most significant in understanding the total embodied carbon footprint and being able to significantly reduce a building’s total output. It is also beneficial to begin creating internal documents with local and commonly used structural products and recording their embodied ...
Buildings account for a significant portion of global carbon emissions, necessitating strategies to accelerate decarbonisation in the construction sector. This research aims to analyse the behavioural strategies and interactions among governments, construction enterprises, and financial institutions in promoting...
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 ...
Launched in 2019, theRIBA 2030 Climate Challengeis the Institute’s response to the climate emergency. The challenge sets out ambitious targets for operational energy, embodied carbon and potable water to be achieved in buildings in use. Signatories undertake to attempt the targets and to submit pr...
Find new ways to get value from your legacy buildings with smarter, more intelligent approaches to building management. Embrace retrofit – it’s kinder to the planet The embodied carbon associated with a typical new building can be the equivalent of 20 years’ worth of operational CO2 emissions...
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...
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Our analysis shows the use of concrete in housing continues to increase. This meansconcrete-related emissionsare increasing too. Better data systems to track material flows would give us a clearer picture of where to target efforts to reduce embodied carbon in housing. ...