standards which are already set for concrete; and, $350 million for grants, technical assistance and tools to help manufacturers, producers, suppliers and others measure, report and substantially lower the levels of embodied carbon of construction materials including steel, concrete, asphalt and glass...
Similarly, embodied energy (and carbon) is now equally viewed as being important in the context of buildings [2], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9] and construction materials [10]. Odum [11] and Hammond [12] regarded the concept of embodied energy obtained from energy analysis as only a ...
The federal government's central purchaser put out a request on Tuesday to learn more about the availability of low-carbon construction materials that are made in America. Information gathered from industry will be shared across the federal government and will help create good-paying jobs, said Rob...
Because as much as 80% of the embodied carbon in a building comes from the structural materials, sustainable development must rely on low-carbon options. Options for low-carbon construction materials may also include repurposed materials such as reclaimed wood and recycled steel content. (The const...
The report focuses on “embodied carbon”, emissions coming from sourcing and producing materials, logistics, construction activities, maintenance, demolition, and waste management. These emissions are hard to abate and have gone relatively unnoticed as the sector focused its efforts on reducing the emi...
negative materials, the project will not achieve an embodied carbon negative footprint when construction is complete.” For instance, there is no carbon negative plumbing. “To quote our plumber at the end of a meeting: ‘There aren’t environmentally friendly plumbing materials today,’” says ...
In the last few decades, several eco-cementitious binders have been proposed with lower embodied energy and reduced carbon footprint than that of ordinary Portland cement (OPC). This chapter focuses about six promising alternative cement binders which have the potential to be adopted in varieties ...
“If you, for example, look at the embodied carbon coefficient per-unit mass of concrete versus other materials, we're all the way down the bottom,” he says. “Unreinforced concrete also has a very clear end-of-life strategy, so if you don't reuse the components you can easily recycle...
Every architect and developer knows that building materials matter, but in the context of climate change, construction materials take on a new level of significance. It is estimated that nearly 11% of global carbon emissions stem from the production of building materials, and many common o...
then there are further possible advantages in terms of strength and durability. Either way—whether an addition to a hydraulically- or a carbonate-bound system, the careful use of selected ashes could significantly lower the embodied carbon of construction materials employing a blended PC-biomass ash...