stakeholders, and a fair, public, transparent, accountable selection process can be developed if the fundamental choice is made to do so. A city government, a group of businesses, a university, or a citizens housing or environmental group can act as the initial catalyst or convener, starting i...
The U.S. Government's Inflation Reduction Act invests: $5 Billion in grants to support efforts to develop and implement strong, local greenhouse gas reduction strategies; $3.4 billion for General Services Administration projects with low-embodied carbon standards which are already set for concrete; ...
Relationship between embodied energy and embodied CO2 or CO2 footprint is defined. Different materials defined in the literature as low carbon materials are referred, such as cement and concrete, wood, bricks, rammed earth and sandstone. The review shows the research efforts found in the literature...
Recycled concrete Concrete mixes that reduce carbon impact Using new techniques and minimalist approaches to design—think sleek lines, exposed ceilings, and buffed concrete floors—also cuts down on the total amount of material used. TheEmbodied Carbon Calculator—or EC3, which works withBIM(Building...
Fire safety engineers can consider the impact they have on embodied carbon through the fire safety measures they propose. For example, some building elements that exist might inherently meet fire safety requirements and do not need modifying for fire safety reasons – for example, walls and floors...
they had a vision. The project would not only breathe another 100 years of life into the 1912 brick bearing-wall building, it would serve as a living laboratory to test and showcase cutting-edge low-embodied-carbon systems and materials, among them cement, concrete, steel, timber and insula...
embodied energyembodied carbonLCAcase studyThe paper is based on recent work within IEA EBC Annex 57. It describes building design strategies for reduction of embodied energy and embodied carbon emissions and presents them on five examples of design optimizations of building elements, subsystems and ...
Design strategies for low embodied carbon and low embodied energy buildings: principles and examples. Energy Procedia 83, 147e156.Lupišek, A., Vaculikova, M., Mancik, S., Hodkova, J., and Ržika, J. (2015). Design strategies for low embodied carbon and low embodied energy ...
Low-carbon embodied alkali-activated materials for sustainable construction: A comparative study of single and ensemble learnersalkali-activated materialsmachine learningcompressive strengthPopular and eco-friendly alkali-activated materials (AAMs) replace Portland cement concrete. Due to the considerable ...
In order to calculate the carbon emissions in the manufacturing stage and usage stage, as the two largest contributors in life cycle, we propose a calculation method of "embodied carbon-energy (ECE)" of products/components/parts. The ECE took carbon footprint as a metric for estimating energy...