Tag: buildings

• 4.1 Carbon: Embodied Carbon

  Author: Patricia Alves ABSTRACT: Embodied Carbon refers to all CO2 emissions associated with material and construction processes throughout the whole lifecycle of a building or infrastructure. MAIN: “Buildings are currently responsible for 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions: 28% from operational emissions, from the energy needed to heat, cool, and power them, and the remaining…

  Lloyd Alter

  September 10, 2022

  carbon

  builders, buildings, carbon, embodied carbon, emissions, infrastructure, net-zero, operational carbon

• 7.15 Building Design: Retrofit vs New

  What is better for the environment, retrofitting old structures or starting from scratch with new construction? This paper explores the issue of carbon emissions within buildings, which account for 30% of all carbon emissions in the world, and how to decarbonize structures both new and old. By Rennie Taylor

  Lloyd Alter

  May 15, 2022

  Building Design

  buildings, carbon, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, climate change, construction, decarbonize, decarbonize structures, embodied carbon, GHG, greenhouse gas, operational carbon, retrofit, retrofitting, reuse