Embodied Carbon In Buildings

Author : Francesco Pomponi,Catherine De Wolf,Alice Moncaster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319727967

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Embodied Carbon in Buildings by Francesco Pomponi,Catherine De Wolf,Alice Moncaster Pdf

This book provides a single-source reference for whole life embodied impacts of buildings. The comprehensive and persuasive text, written by over 50 invited experts from across the world, offers an indispensable resource both to newcomers and to established practitioners in the field. Ultimately it provides a persuasive argument as to why embodied impacts are an essential aspect of sustainable built environments. The book is divided into four sections: measurement, including a strong emphasis on uncertainty analysis, as well as offering practical case studies of individual buildings and a comparison of materials; management, focusing in particular on the perspective of designers and contractors; mitigation, which identifies some specific design strategies as well as challenges; and finally global approaches, six chapters which describe in authoritative detail the ways in which the different regions of the world are tackling the issue.

Author : Simon Sturgis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000702354

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Targeting Zero by Simon Sturgis Pdf

Embodied and Whole Life Carbon will change the way buildings are designed, yet carbon emissions associated with the construction and life of buildings are not yet wholly understood by the profession. Energy is assumed to be the province of services engineers, yet energy from materials is as big an issue. Architects have the opportunity to take the lead in redefining how buildings are designed to achieve a low carbon future.

Author : Bruce King
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781550926613

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The New Carbon Architecture by Bruce King Pdf

Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate "Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when materials are mined, manufactured, and transported — comprising some 10% of global emissions. With the built environment doubling by 2030, buildings are a carbon juggernaut threatening to overwhelm the climate. It doesn't have to be this way. Like never before in history, buildings can become part of the climate solution. With biomimicry and innovation, we can pull huge amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it up as walls, roofs, foundations, and insulation. We can literally make buildings out of the sky with a massive positive impact. The New Carbon Architecture is a paradigm-shifting tour of the innovations in architecture and construction that are making this happen. Office towers built from advanced wood products; affordable, low-carbon concrete alternatives; plastic cleaned from the oceans and turned into building blocks. We can even grow insulation from mycelium. A tour de force by the leaders in the field, The New Carbon Architecture will fire the imagination of architects, engineers, builders, policy makers, and everyone else captivated by the possibility of architecture to heal the climate and produce safer, healthier, and more beautiful buildings.

Author : O. P. Gibbons,J. J. Orr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Carbon
ISBN : 190633546X

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How to Calculate Embodied Carbon by O. P. Gibbons,J. J. Orr Pdf

Author : Sean Lockie,Piotr Berebecki
Publisher : Rics Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Building materials
ISBN : 1842197959

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Methodology to Calculate Embodied Carbon of Materials by Sean Lockie,Piotr Berebecki Pdf

Author : Chris Magwood
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781550925159

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Making Better Buildings by Chris Magwood Pdf

Sustainable building from the ground up - the pros and cons of the latest green and natural materials and technologies From foundation to finish, a wealth of information is available on sustainable construction methods-entire volumes have been published on individual green and natural building techniques. But with so many different ideas to choose from, there is no single resource that allows an owner or builder to quickly and objectively compare the merits of each system for their particular project. Making Better Buildings cuts through the hype and provides the unvarnished facts about the upsides and downsides of the most widely discussed materials and technologies. Drawing on the real-world experiences of designer/builders, this comparative guide systematically and comprehensively examines each approach in terms of: Cost, sourcing, labor intensity, and ease of construction Energy efficiency, embodied energy, and environmental impacts Availability/accessibility Viable applications and future potential. Each chapter is rounded out by a chart which summarizes the material in a quick and accessible manner. Whether you are an owner preparing to build a green or natural home, or a conventional contractor determined to integrate sustainable alternatives into your existing construction practices, this up-to-the minute resource will help you make the best decisions for your project, while meeting your energy, efficiency, budgetary, and site-specific needs.

Author : Jeffrey Stake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1585762334

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Thwart Climate Change Now by Jeffrey Stake Pdf

Thwart Climate Change Now: Reducing Embodied Carbon Brick by Brick addresses an imperative--to slow the pace of climate change within the coming decade--before it's too late. While climate policy typically focuses on future decarbonization 10 to 20 years out, temperatures continue to rise. Greenhouse gases emitted upfront from the materials fabrication, construction, and renovation of our physical environment--embodied emissions--accelerate the rate of global warming now. Sadly, they increase atmospheric carbon before our buildings and infrastructure are even used. Often ignored or deemed too perplexing to resolve, the need to reduce embodied emissions immediately is the subject of this book. Written for a variety of readers--from policymakers and legislators to architects and developers--Thwart Climate Change Now addresses how to tackle the built environment's "embodied" carbon emissions, highlighting specific design and policy issues that overlook their own contribution to atmospheric carbon. The book brings together the science of climate change, sustainable design, and green policies in a language accessible to a diverse readership, followed by case study examples to support design, policy and legislative recommendations to slow emissions growth in the near term.

Author : Rahman Azari,Alice Moncaster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003820123

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The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment by Rahman Azari,Alice Moncaster Pdf

This handbook explores the critically important topic of embodied carbon, providing advanced insights that focus on measuring and reducing embodied carbon from across the built environment, including buildings, urban areas and cities, and construction materials and components. Split into five distinct sections, international experts, researchers, and professionals present the recent developments in the field of embodied carbon from various perspectives and at different scales of material, building, and city. Following an introduction to the embodied carbon question, the chapters in Section 1 then cover the key debates around issues such as the politics of embodied carbon, links between embodied carbon and thermal mass, and the misuse of carbon offsets. Section 2 reviews the embodied carbon policies in a selected number of countries. Sections 3, 4, and 5 approach the topic of embodied carbon from urban-, building-, and material-scale perspectives, respectively, and use case studies to demonstrate estimation techniques and present opportunities and challenges in embodied carbon mitigation. This will be important reading for upper-level students and researchers in Architecture, Urban Planning, Engineering, and Construction disciplines. Presenting case studies of embodied carbon assessment, this book will also help practicing architects, engineers, and urban planners understand embodied carbon estimation techniques and different mitigation strategies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Sustainable buildings
ISBN : 1906335192

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A Short Guide to Embodied Carbon in Building Structures by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000706796

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What Colour is your Building? by David Clark Pdf

Defining and reducing the carbon footprint of a new or refurbished building can be a daunting task. There are lots of tools to measure the environmental impact of buildings, but they all measure energy and CO2 in different ways, and they do not measure the whole carbon footprint. What Colour is your Building? provides practical and pragmatic guidance on how to calculate and then compare the whole carbon footprint of buildings using one simple method looking at operating, embodied and transport energy. It will equip designers, building owners, occupiers, planners and policy makers with the tools and knowledge that they will need to make decisions early on about where the big impacts will be in terms of reducing the carbon footprint of the building, including: A new, simple approach to understanding the whole carbon impact of buildings Benchmarking data for operating energy performance A clear, transparent method of separating landlord energy performance from tenant energy performance Simple diagrams and numbers to put renewable energy into perspective.

Author : Syed M. Ahmed,Paul Hampton,Salman Azhar,Amelia D. Saul
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030484651

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Collaboration and Integration in Construction, Engineering, Management and Technology by Syed M. Ahmed,Paul Hampton,Salman Azhar,Amelia D. Saul Pdf

This book gathers papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century, held in London in 2019. Bringing together a diverse group of government agencies, academics, professionals, and students, the book addresses issues related to construction safety, innovative technologies, lean and sustainable construction, international construction, improving quality and productivity, and innovative materials in the construction industry. In addition, it highlights international collaborations between various disciplines in the areas of construction, engineering, management, and technology. The book demonstrates that, as the industry moves forward in an ever-complex global economy, multi-national collaboration is crucial, and its future growth will undoubtedly depend on international teamwork and alliances.

Author : Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Renewable energy sources
ISBN : 1523150181

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Embodied Carbon in Building Services by Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers Pdf

Author : David Benjamin
Publisher : Lars Müller Publishers
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : ARCHITECTURE
ISBN : 303778525X

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Embodied Energy and Design by David Benjamin Pdf

Architecture is increasingly understood as a field of practice that is inextricably embedded in ecologies and energy systems, and yet embodied energy-the various forms of energy required to ex- tract raw matter, to produce and transport building materials, and to assemble a given building- remains largely under-explored in its ramifications for both design and environment. As operational energy has declined as a proportion of buildings' total energy consumption, embodied energy has become an essential site for further speculation and innovation. 'Embodied Energy and Design: Making Architecture between Metrics and Narratives' asks questions about the varying scales, methods of analysis, and opportunities through which we might reconsider the making of architecture in the context of global flows of energy and resources. 120 illustrations

Author : Ranjith Dissanayake,Priyan Mendis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789811397493

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ICSBE 2018 by Ranjith Dissanayake,Priyan Mendis Pdf

This book highlights current research and development in the area of sustainable built environments, currently one of the most important disciplines in civil engineering. It covers a range of topics, including sustainable construction and infrastructures, waste and wastewater management, enhanced sustainability, renewable and clean energy, sustainable materials and industrial ecology, building automation and virtual reality, and impact of climate change. As such it provides vital insights into responsible urbanization practices, and new tools and technologies in civil engineering that can mitigate the negative effects of the built environment.

Author : Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1954081391

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Residensity by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Pdf