The impact of embodied carbon in the built environment has been difficult to assess, due to a lack of data. To address that knowledge gap civil and environmental engineers have created a new tool to ...

The construction industry’s use of concrete accounts for a huge percentage of the carbon emissions we generate as a society. Mostly, that’s due simply to the sheer amount of concrete we use. To put it ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building Transparency, a nonprofit organization that provides open access data and tools to foster a better building future, today announces it has expanded access of the ...

Charlie Law from Timber Development UK, said by retaining existing structures and adding timber to them, a building will have ...

Many building materials construction companies rely on also come with a heavy carbon load. But St. Louis organizations are finding ways to reduce this burden. The construction industry and its product ...

The use of concrete in the construction of new infrastructure is a significant contributor to the widespread challenge of reducing embodied carbon. Embodied carbon are the carbon dioxide emissions ...

Philip Oldfield has received grant funding from multiple sources and is an Advisory Group Member of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), and the James Martin Institute. This ...

Emissions from buildings around the globe account for nearly 42% of all carbon released into the air. The majority of those emissions are due to building operations, while about a third are from ...

How does the building industry align around radical, pragmatic decarbonization? Along with addressing climate pollution from energy use, we also must address the climate pollution that comes from ...

An amendment to the California building code going into effect July 1 will require owners of new buildings 100K SF or larger to comply with a set of rules aimed at reducing embodied carbon. This ...

Insulation plays an essential role in today’s buildings—whether it is to provide thermal efficiency to reduce energy demand and cut carbon emissions, or to reduce noise transmission to provide ...

For 12 years, LPA and Edwards Lifesciences (ELS) have been collaborating on the expansion of the medical technology company’s 42-acre campus in Irvine, Calif., designing each element around evolving ...