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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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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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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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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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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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The answer largely depends on how your company defines sustainability and what your goals entail, but this article will help you understand the various consumption and waste implications of both. Waste generation and disposal. Here is a look at our three main factors, water, energy, and waste prior to drug production: Water use.

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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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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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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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3BL Media

JANUARY 31, 2022

To begin, there’s the embodied carbon in the building’s construction and component materials – labs typically use large amounts of concrete, steel and glass. There’s also the matter of operational carbon, which looms especially large in labs that run 24/7 and must meet strict scientific protocols.

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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

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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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 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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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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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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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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Green Technology

APRIL 4, 2023

But opening up air dampers and installing better filters can lead to higher energy costs, unless measures are taken to reduce energy waste. The Covid-19 pandemic led to a renewed focus on ventilation and indoor air quality in our schools.

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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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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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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 4, 2023

Modular construction is also associated with cleaner construction as it can be done faster, and with reduced waste and emissions. . Carbon disclosure makes for green buildings. And Canada’s federal government in late 2022 established an embodied carbon standard for its own construction projects. .

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A small number of influential large companies are creating internal funds to support sustainability goals specific to circular economy initiatives, such as designing out waste and recovering materials from products used internally or sold in the market. The eyes of traditional investors are widening to the landscape as well.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

There’s a lot of work to be done to advance the circular economy and ensure that we are moving away from a linear ‘take-make-waste’ system.” We know that everything we call waste could be a valuable resource.” A member of the Métis Nation of Ontario, Laplante founded Hempergy , an award-winning hemp-waste insulation start-up, in 2019.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Retaining and re-using the existing structure, rather than demolishing and building anew, Garrard House will save over 2,500 tonnes of embodied carbon emissions, creating a sustainable building for the future.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project. Manager Sustainability and ESG, JetBlue; New York .

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Teresa Parejo, Sustainability Director for Iberia who presented Iberia’s plan: “Fleet renovation, digitalization of on-board paper, and a zero cabin waste plan are some of the actions to incorporate the SDGs into the aviation sector.” Representing the aviation sector was Ms.

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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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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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