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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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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.

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Saint-Gobain Achieves Core Living Building Ready Designation From the International Living Future Institute for CertainTeed Innovation Malvern Renovation

3BL Media

In July, the company announced upgrades at its CertainTeed Insulation plant in Athens, Georgia , which is projected to save over 7,300 MWh of energy and 20 million gallons of water annually, while reducing landfill waste by over 5,000 MT. The Group’s commitment is guided by its purpose, “MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME”.

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Microsoft to Require Key Suppliers to Use 100% Carbon-Free Electricity as Supply Chain Emissions Jump

ESG Today

Microsoft launched a series of goals in 2020, including commitments to become carbon negative, water positive and zero waste by 2030, as well as to protect more land than it uses by that date. But, even more, we reflect the challenges the world must overcome to develop and use greener concrete, steel, fuels, and chips.

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Remanufacturing lighting

Envirotec Magazine

But recycling is near the bottom of the waste hierarchy. Recycling destroys most of the embodied carbon in an electrical product, and should only be used if reuse, repair and remanufacture are not possible. It is important to purchase from lighting producers committed to applying the waste hierarchy and to proper recycling.

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Steeling Ourselves for a Sustainable Future

3BL Media

In Aotearoa New Zealand, 85% of buildings and construction steel waste is recycled 3 - making it an important part of the circular economy, where materials are reused, repaired, refurbished, and recycled for as long as possible. Manufacturing structural steel has traditionally been a high carbon activity. Reusable and durable.