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Addressing Climate Change through Façade Design
Functional Aspects of Facades and the Role of Embodied Carbon by Vaclav Hasik, Data Manager at Building Transparency Since the beginning of human civilizations, buildings and their facades have...
OwnersCAN Embodied Carbon Action Plan (ECAP)
The Owners Carbon Action Network (ownersCAN) is a group of developers, users, and managers of buildings that are dedicated to measuring and reducing the embodied carbon of their projects....
Embodied Carbon: Developing a Client Brief
The UK Green Building Council developed Embodied Carbon: Developing a Client Brief to support clients in taking first steps in their critical role in reducing embodied carbon. “We know that...
Net-zero buildings: Where do we stand?
WBSCD's report "Net-zero buildings: Where do we stand?" provides a detailed look at six whole building life cycle assessment (WBLCA) case studies to illustrate some of the challenges, barriers...
An inside look into how Microsoft is reducing embodied carbon
Microsoft has committed to becoming a carbon negative company by 2030. This means that reducing Scope 3 emissions, including the embodied carbon associated with construction of their buildings,...
RMI Concrete Solutions Guide
RMI’s Concrete Solutions Guide released in August 2021 provides a user-friendly overview of proven and scalable solutions to reduce concrete’s contribution to climate change. The guide highlights...
Decarbonizing construction – Guidance for investors and developers
WBSCD’s report “Decarbonizing construction – Guidance for investors and developers to reduce embodied carbon” provides targeted guidance for developers and investors to leverage their unique...
Buy Clean Procurement and ENERGY STAR
Governments, institutions, private organizations and construction companies are looking for ways to reduce the carbon pollution embedded in the products they purchase. Many are choosing to...
RMI: Reducing Embodied Carbon in Buildings
Low-Cost, High-Value Opportunities Report / July 2021 Authors Rebecca Esau, Matt Jungclaus, Victor Olgyay, Audrey Rempher. Authors listed alphabetically. All authors from RMI unless...
EPD Requirements in Procurement Policies
An analysis of Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) definitions in Buy Clean and other North American procurement policiesA variety of existing and proposed legislation regulating public...
Protected: Transformative Carbon-Storing Materials
Accelerating an Ecosystem | June 2021The potential for meaningful climate impact through materials that serve as carbon sinks now gives such materials a clear advantage, with the potential to...
Guide for a Low Carbon Concrete Implementation Strategy
To meet global emissions targets and curb the negative effects of climate change, ambitioussustainability goals must be set and exceeded in the design of the buildings we create. Given the large...
Embodied Carbon Guidance for Building Owners and Investors
Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies for Optimizing Projects, Systems, and Procurement Businesses that take a leading role in committing to truly net-zero goals that include embodied carbon will...
ECOM: Embodied Carbon Estimator for Structural Engineers
Want to quickly find the embodied carbon order of magnitude of your project or framing scheme? Use this very simple estimator below that we call ECOM. ECOM stands for (E)mbodied (C)arbon (O)rder...
Vertical Extensions: Technical Challenges and Carbon Impact
Jenny Pattison discusses the typical considerations that structural engineers face when seeking to add floors to an existing building, and the sustainability outcomes of potential solutions....
A Weight off Your Mind: Floor Loadings and the Climate Emergency
Will Hawkins, Angus Peters and Tim Mander argue for designers to challenge overspecification and grasp the opportunity that reduced floor loads offer for low-carbon structural design. To align...
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