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Material quantities and embodied carbon dioxide in structures

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability, 2015
This paper analyses data from 200 buildings to identify the embodied environmental impact of building structures. In recent years, the percentage of embodied carbon dioxide in the whole life cycle impact of buildings has been increasing while innovations have lowered operational carbon dioxide.
Catherine De Wolf, Frances Yang, Duncan Cox, Andrea Charlson, Amy Seif Hattan, John Ochsendorf   +5 more
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Define embodied carbon

Abstract Chapter 2 delves into the complexities of defining and measuring embodied carbon within the built environment. It begins by clarifying the concept of embodied carbon, breaking it down into different life-cycle stages, and emphasizing its significant impact on the overall carbon footprint of buildings.
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Carbon Emissions Embodied in Trade

2016
This chapter will analyze China’s carbon emissions embodied in domestic and international trade, based on the consumption emission accounting.
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Embodied Carbon of Tall Buildings: Specific Challenges

2018
Tall buildings are becoming the predominant building typology in cities and megacities worldwide, with only a few regional exceptions. These buildings have unique construction and fire and life safety characteristics, which increase their initial embodied carbon footprints over other building typologies for the same built areas.
Davis, Donald, Trabucco, Dario
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Sustainable structures and embodied carbon

2019
Designed by William Le Barron Jenny and engineer George B. Whitney, the Home Insurance Building, completed in Chicago in 1885, is generally regarded as the world’s first skyscraper where the load-bearing capacity of the facade was liberated by a structural steel frame.
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Impacts of Foundations on Embodied Carbon

2018
While a structural engineer plays an important role in the design and construction of a building, initiatives such as the Paris Agreement are increasing the importance of the structural engineer interest in sustainability with it being pushed to the forefront of the design field as a major concern and priority. Given this, the structural engineer needs
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Embodied Carbon of Sustainable Technologies

2018
There is global emphasis on the creation of zero energy and therefore zero carbon buildings. The vast majority of work is focused on reducing the so-called ‘operational’ energy in buildings, i.e. investigating methods to reduce energy consumption within the building and using more efficient equipment and source energy from zero carbon renewable energy ...
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Embodied carbon

2021
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Embodied Energy, Embodied Water and Embodied Carbon of University Buildings: Energy-Carbon-Water Nexus Approach to Sustainable Buildings

2023
Manish Dixit, Pranav Pradeep Kumar
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Historical evolution of embodied carbon

Abstract Chapter 1 provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of embodied carbon, tracing its historical evolution and its significance in the built environment. The chapter begins by defining embodied carbon as the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, transportation, and assembly of building materials,
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