Tag: infrastructure

• 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