3BL Media

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Saint-Gobain North America, through its building materials subsidiary CertainTeed Roofing, has achieved a 49% reduction in landfill waste over the past year at its Shreveport site through the building of a new recycling area at the facility.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

18, 10:00am AZT Catalysts for Change – Transforming Food Supply Chains for Reduced Waste and Sustainable Production: Nov. Trane Technologies recently announced its industry-first commitment to reduce embodied carbon by 40% by 2030 , furthering its leadership in sourcing more sustainable solutions.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Could modular construction be considered to reduce material waste? There are two key things to focus on when talking about the existing buildings: 1) Existing buildings contain a lot of embodied carbon that we cannot afford to waste by demolishing the building. Is mass timber an option? Can recycled steel be utilized?

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3BL Media

MARCH 29, 2024

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

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3BL Media

MARCH 9, 2022

Buildings are responsible for nearly 40 percent of global GHG emissions and roughly one-third of all waste is related to building and construction. That means we must bet on lower embodied carbon solutions, advancements in the circular economy, and safer by design innovation.

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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. This reduces the need for raw materials and lowers overall waste generation.

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Sustainability Matters

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Cement Australia CEO Rob Davies said GreenCem reduced embodied carbon dioxide by 30% without compromising the strength of the concrete compared with other GP cement products. The kiln upgrades will reduce emissions by allowing for coal substitution and the diversion of waste from landfill. Images: Supplied.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

for its Environmental & Waste Implementation Project with Shell. Consumer & Residential: FLOR, for their Carbon Negative Area Rugs. Software & Cloud: Building Transparency for the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3). Software Implementation: Cority Software Inc.,

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

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.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

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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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

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. Individually, these changes may appear minuscule, but compound these and up to 50% carbon savings can be achieved.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Although every building is unique, retrofitting an existing building versus building a new design can cut lifetime carbon emissions in half. To meet emissions targets, we must focus on measures with a low carbon footprint, a quick return on upfront emissions, and a low operational profile. So, where do you begin?

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By developing and deploying a range of measures – including greater energy efficiency, avoiding waste and electrifying processes that currently use gas – it can be done. Many of our customers – such as those in the automotive sector – increasingly demand components and materials with much lower embodied carbon. Raw materials.

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ESG Today

MAY 16, 2024

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.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2022

They include a waste heat recovery strategy combined with an underground geo-exchange field to store surplus heat energy produced during the summer for use in the winter. Existing materials are a resource, not waste.”. No stone has been left unturned in the quest for net zero. Future-Ready Historic Buildings.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This project follows several other recent actions taken by the company to solidify its commitment towards sustainability: Last month, Saint-Gobain announced that it had reduced waste by 49% at its CertainTeed Roofing facility in Shreveport, Louisiana by enhancing recycling practices and implementing key measures to prevent cross contamination.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This can help reduce the contribution of embodied carbon to overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The combination of these advanced power management features helps optimize energy consumption of SANs, which can minimize energy waste and reduce operating costs.

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3BL Media

JUNE 3, 2025

Minimized waste: Sawmill residues are typically used in mass timber manufacturing, helping reduce waste associated with production. Comparison of Embodied Carbon Footprint of a Mass Timber Building Structure with a Steel Equivalent. Hemmati, Messadi, Gu, Seddelmeyer and Hemmati. April 2024.)

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3BL Media

AUGUST 9, 2022

Additionally, life sciences companies are committing to sustainability including goals for zero c arbon operations and drastically limiting water consumption and waste production. Many reduction measures focus on energy and carbon, but water and waste minimization are important to holistically reduce a facility’s footprint.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

Stakeholders assess sustainability priorities and resources such as: Building certifications Carbon emissions Energy resiliency Water use Waste reduction Health and wellness Refrigerant use Discussing sustainability priorities can lead to unexpected results. At times, industry-standard building certifications (e.g.,

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Sanch Gupta and Milton Calderon Donefer have saved 52,000 pounds of food from going to waste and delivered more than 60,000 meals to homeless shelters in eight cities. million tonnes of plastic waste over the following decade. I firmly believe in waste reduction and working on leaving the world a better place than I found it,” he says.

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3BL Media

JUNE 26, 2024

In 2024, USGBC is doing a slow-release of LEED v5, which introduces new prerequisites such as "embodied carbon assessment" and "climate resilience assessment" to emphasize upfront environmental impact and long-term adaptability to climate change. Documentation Gather any necessary information for certification.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The overriding principle for a revision to the renewable energy directive must therefore be to strengthen requirements that will maximise reductions in GHG emissions before 2030 by increasing the use of truly no-carbon renewables together with the best energy efficiency measures in these sectors.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2023

These days our customers – and their customers – rightly expect us to make every effort to ensure that no energy goes to waste, and everything Ericsson does at the moment is governed by that demand, with sustainability in mind.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Delegates will learn: • How TM66 and TM65 combine to validate the circular and embodied carbon content of products already designed. • He says: ’To quote [environmentalist] Ellen MacArthur, “waste is a design flaw; In nature it doesn’t exist”’. The focus is on practical delivery of TM66 and TM65.

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Green Technology

JANUARY 26, 2023

Summit Floorplan Advisory Board With guidance and direction from our advisory board, the concurrent sessions offer insights from the experts and practitioners at the leading edge of green progress, in fields ranging from transportation and energy to funding, architecture and green schools.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Another thing that we're super proud of - our new commitment in terms of reducing embodied carbon by 40 percent by 2030. We can generate that ourselves on site with, think like waste potato peels, The other solution that we're actively involved in trying to promote is market-based mechanisms. So, you have a natural gas pipeline.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Here’s the thing: The pre-use manufacturing phase accounts for 70 – 90% of hardware equipment total embodied carbon. The UN puts the value of wasted rare and precious metals contained on PCBs at $62.5 It was important to create cyclical processes that can reutilise the reactive ingredients of the processes so minimising waste.

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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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Sustainable Round Table

JUNE 8, 2023

As a digital company, PTC has a unique ability to assist customers with their decarbonization journeys by creating products that eliminate waste, reduce energy, and innovate towards greater sustainability. PTC’s tagline – “Digital transforms physical” – perfectly describes this ‘superpower.’

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

Transitioning to a circular economy would not only allow to reduce resource consumption and carbon footprint, but also address the waste problem. There is a lot of embodied carbon in a building structure, especially in the concrete and steel. Circularity has many facets”, explains Prof. says Norton.

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Green Technology

JANUARY 25, 2023

Education Program With guidance and direction from our advisory board, the concurrent sessions offer insights from the experts and practitioners at the leading edge of green progress, in fields ranging from transportation and energy to funding, architecture and green schools.

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Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 31, 2024

Wasted energy in buildings is significant at almost one-third of energy consumption. Automating energy management improves efficiency and reduces energy use and therefore cost, as well as contributing carbon emission reduction,” continued Monger. Heating and cooling commercial buildings when they are empty is a prime example.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Newly designed high-efficiency fixtures and systems provide the same comforts as their wasteful counterparts. HVAC and plumbing professionals can consider keeping their own items in their truck instead of using plastic items to reduce unnecessary waste. Let’s not forget plastic tableware.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 13, 2023

Building commercial real estate creates a significant amount of embodied carbon with 60-70% of the total carbon footprint of an investment created by building it.”

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

These alternatives are known as Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCM) and can be blended with cement to achieve a lower carbon footprint than traditional concrete. The most widely used SCMs derive from industrial waste; however, a host of more promising and more long-term alternatives are already in development and being trialled.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

Going forward, it will include lifecycle assessment of materials employed in the construction phase as part of the development design as a way of reducing embodied carbon, waste and pollution. The programme will target a broad range of ESG themes, aligning with the objectives of the EU’s environmental taxonomy.

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