Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 17, 2023

Embodied carbon, or the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with building materials from extraction through end-of-life and disposal/reuse, makes up more than 11% of global emissions. Embodied carbon emissions are not part of the energy efficiency regulated by the energy code.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Lower-carbon materials? Investments build for startups addressing embodied carbon emissions in the built environment. Got prefab?

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This guide highlights six key opportunities to reduce embodied carbon in concrete products without compromising financial or material performance. The Concrete Solutions Guide provides a user-friendly overview of proven and scalable solutions to reduce concrete’s contribution to climate change. … Read more →

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

OCTOBER 16, 2022

trillion in infrastructure spending needed per year until 2050 will go toward new construction—offering opportunities to fight climate change by reducing embodied emissions. Three-quarters of the $9.2

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2022

Meanwhile, Arup and Skanska raise the bar on embodied carbon.

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2022

Reducing Embodied Carbon. For WSP and most of its clients and stakeholders, interest in mass timber is being driven primarily by a concern for reducing embodied carbon in buildings. To view the firm’s Embodied Carbon Action Plan, click here. [To Industry groups and professional organizations in the U.S.

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 19, 2024

The US government has established a White House Climate and Trade Task Force to study ways it can tackle "carbon leakage, carbon dumping, and embodied carbon in general" and draw lessons from the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Read the full story from Gensler. As companies begin renovations to accommodate hybrid work environments, what considerations are being made for materials being removed from the project site?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

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. We focused on the United Kingdom, where embodied carbon and reuse of building materials is at the forefront of discussions.

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ESG Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Steel manufacturer Nucor Corporation announced today that it has signed an agreement with Mercedes-Benz to supply low-embodied carbon steel for the automaker’s production plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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3BL Media

MARCH 29, 2024

We're now starting to talk about water efficiency, waste, embodied carbon, and nature repair. Their priorities commonly revolve around energy, water and waste efficiencies. Energy efficiency is essentially the old sustainability game that's becoming more mature. Read more on the CBRE website

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Utiliity Dive

JANUARY 27, 2023

After reducing energy use in buildings, cutting embodied carbon is next on the green policy agenda for state and local leaders, potentially prompting a shift from concrete and steel to materials like timber or straw, experts say.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 15, 2023

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. Consigli began construction of both buildings in April 2021.

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ESG Today

MARCH 1, 2023

In addition to the new supplier rules, the government also announced the release of a new “Standard on Embodied Carbon in Construction,” requiring all new major government construction projects to report and reduce their embodied carbon footprint.

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3BL Media

MARCH 9, 2022

That means we must bet on lower embodied carbon solutions, advancements in the circular economy, and safer by design innovation. We think that one day all buildings need to emit zero operational and embodied carbon, need to participate in a completely circular economy, and need to be made from green chemistry materials.

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Green Technology

APRIL 18, 2023

Forum Floorplan Advisory Board Register to Attend Time Value to Carbon Over the years the building industry has been focused on the operation side of things. Embodied Carbon has become the focus as of late as a more holistic approach to a Building’s lifecycle.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 12, 2022

Another feature: that 1 Hotels aims to reduce embodied carbon by using existing buildings where possible. “We We always try to look for buildings to repurpose, so we can try to address embodied carbon, even though we might not always be able to offset the total of our embodied carbon,” Hanson says. “We

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 6, 2020

Without considering the upfront emissions from construction, the world could burn through its remaining carbon budget as the global population swells. Eco-Business asks WorldGBC's Lisa Bate, how to address the problem of embodied carbon.

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Energy Central

MAY 30, 2023

In Massachusetts and elsewhere, advocates and policymakers are increasingly turning their attention to “embodied carbon” contained in building materials. Heating and cooking aren’t the only sources of building emissions is an article from Energy News Network, a nonprofit news service covering the clean energy transition.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As the social justice movement thrives and the concept of embodied carbon shifts the climate conversation, architects and designers are reexamining the deep impact of their work. Read the full story at Metropolis. Read more →

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

Most of the carbon footprint for steel companies comes from Scope 3 emissions, emissions from suppliers downstream, as is the case with many businesses. According to Joshua Davies, sustainability manager for Multiplex Europe, 42 percent of his company’s overall 2019 footprint came from embodied carbon from its suppliers.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

MARCH 23, 2023

The impact of multi-story building design considerations on embodied carbon emissions, cost, and operational energy has been revealed.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The projects will use low-embodied carbon (LEC) materials that are considered to be cleaner, part of … Continue reading U.S. invests $2 billion to support 150 cleaner construction projects

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 16, 2022

Figuring out the operating carbon emissions is straightforward as well. But what about the embodied carbon—the upfront carbon emitted when building … Continue reading Total carbon footprint of a North American home is more than you think.

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3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

Our awesome innovators have delivered some incredible innovations recently that are enabling huge reductions in embodied carbon and GHG emissions associated with our Styrofoam™ Brand Insulation and Froth-Pak™ Spray Foam products. How has your team’s innovation helped advance DuPont’s sustainability goals?

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Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 23, 2024

The 1960s industrial precinct formerly owned by Phillip Morris has been transformed into a $200 million commercial community, sustainably retaining the existing structure throughout the build, resulting in savings of 19 million kg of embodied carbon.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2023

Buildings account for at least 39% of energy-related global carbon emissions annually , and a significant portion of these emissions result from embodied carbon associated with building materials and construction.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The company created a process with CarbonBuilt, a company whose technology leverages atmospheric CO2 for the production of concrete products that aim to reduce embodied carbon by 70% to 100%.

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 5, 2023

The software is led by structural engineers and software engineers, all dedicated to the mission of making timber design easier than concrete and steel and eliminating embodied carbon.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Cement production, a key ingredient in concrete, accounts for approximately 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions, with over 900 kg of CO2 emissions generated for every 1000 kg of material produced. Concrete is the world’s most utilized construction material with approximately 30 billion tons poured each year.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Green Bond proceeds require achieving a minimum 20% reduction in upfront carbon emissions through the adaptive reuse of existing buildings (i.e., avoiding demolition and construction) where appropriate, and the use of low embodied carbon construction practices in major refurbishments and new construction.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Propelled by our purpose to challenge what’s possible for a more sustainable world, we are proud to lead our industry in reducing the embodied carbon of our products – enabling further emissions reductions for our customers and helping to lower their environmental footprints.”

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

General Services Administration (GSA) announced today a $2 billion investment, directed to government building construction projects using low-embodied carbon (LEC) materials, including LEC asphalt, concrete, glass and steel. According to the GSA, the investment aims to catalyze the market for American-made low carbon and expand U.S.

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Sustainability Matters

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With building codes constantly changing, such as the introduction of the NSW Government’s ‘BASIX Material Index’ in October this year, DECO remains committed to reducing the embodied carbon of its building materials and supporting the industry’s transition to greener practices.

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Sustainability Matters

AUGUST 31, 2023

In October this year the new Sustainable Buildings State Environmental Planning Policy will require architects and developers in NSW to start measuring the embodied carbon in their designs as Australia seeks to transition to a low-carbon built environment. What is embodied carbon?

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

Buildings & Construction Hyperion Robotics Oy, Finland, [link] Hyperion Robotics designs, engineers and manufactures sustainable concrete structures, helping clients save time, money and embodied carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Recycling destroys most of the embodied carbon in an electrical product, and should only be used if reuse, repair and remanufacture are not possible. But recycling is near the bottom of the waste hierarchy. One of the biggest barriers to reuse of lighting equipment is the perception that customer demand is limited.

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