Embodied Carbon in Buildings Measurement, Management, and Mitigation
This book provides a single-source reference for whole life embodied impacts of buildings. The comprehensive and persuasive text, written by over 50 invited experts from across the world, offers an indispensable resource both to newcomers and to est
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died Carbon in Buildings Measurement, Management, and Mitigation
Embodied Carbon in Buildings
Francesco Pomponi • Catherine De Wolf Alice Moncaster Editors
Embodied Carbon in Buildings Measurement, Management, and Mitigation
Editors Francesco Pomponi REBEL (Resource Efficient Built Environment Lab) Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh, UK Alice Moncaster School of Engineering and Innovation Open University Milton Keynes, UK
Catherine De Wolf School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland
ISBN 978-3-319-72795-0 ISBN 978-3-319-72796-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72796-7
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Foreword
The significance of embodied carbon in buildings has been recognised only relatively recently. Early attempts to quantify the carbon implications of specific construction materials were noble and served to identify the very real challenges in determining with any confidence the true figures of embodied carbon. The number of variables was daunting, and the postulation of generalised figures for individual materials served only to demonstrate the unreliability of depending on the values for any particular setting. More recently, there has been a drive internationally to improve the understanding of embodied carbon in materials and in the whole cycle of construction and operat
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