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Toronto is the latest city to crackdown on carbon-heavy building materials

Corporate Knights

But in the last two or three years, mounting awareness around the carbon intensity of garden-variety materials such as cement, concrete, steel, glass and aluminum has moved the concept of “embodied carbon" from a somewhat obscure preoccupation of green designers to the planning mainstream. may be missing the mark.

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Embodied carbon vs operational carbon: What’s the difference, and why does it matter?

Renewable Energy World

As more governments around the world take steps against the climate crisis, it becomes increasingly important to understand and implement technologies that allow for development in sustainable and ecologically viable ways. Embodied carbon is all the CO2 emitted in the production of the building.

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Employee Q&A: Sustainability, Asphalt, and Meeting Our 2030 Goals

3BL Media

Luckily for us, though, she brought her talents to Owens Corning nearly six years ago, first developing improvements to our shingle materials and more recently as part of our Asphalt team. Asphalt has an impact on the embodied carbon of our shingle product.

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Wood You Believe: Mass Timber Leading a Renaissance in Modern Construction

3BL Media

and around the globe — and across multiple disciplines — are engaging with building developers, other firms in the building trades, industry groups and building officials to spread knowledge and advance best practices for mass timber construction. Reducing Embodied Carbon. Today, WSP staff in the U.S. CLT Panels.

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Proposed model shows potential for circular practices in construction steel

GreenBiz

Simultaneously, the built environment is working on lowering the embodied carbon of buildings — emissions from the manufacture of building materials — which make up about 11 percent of total global emissions. In Step 1, the steelmaker develops relationships with demolition contractors in locations where they operate.

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Technology’s Role in Achieving ESG Targets

3BL Media

This involves making our buildings more intelligent, softening the footprint on our environment and developing the capabilities that we'll need in the future to thrive in a technological society.” We help them understand what that strategy looks like and then develop the roadmap to get there,” says Tan. Read more on the CBRE website

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HGA and Consigli Unveil New Mass Timber Buildings at Bowdoin College

3BL Media

Early in the design process, an HGA structural analysis estimated that a timber frame system would reduce the buildings’ embodied carbon footprint by approximately 75 percent when compared to a traditional steel structure.