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Carbon footprints and embodied carbon at multiple scales

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2010
Carbon footprints and embodied carbon have a strong methodological foundation and provide valuable input into policy formation. The widespread use of carbon footprints using existing knowledge needs to be encouraged and even regulated. At the product level, carbon footprints can empower consumers to shape their own climate friendly behaviour and help ...
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Developing a Basis for Design – Embodied Carbon in Structures

IABSE Reports, 2015
<p>A basis for design must be established to account for the embodied carbon in a structure. Minimum acceptable goals must be created to encourage a responsible approach to structural design—one that accounts for carbon emissions from groundbreaking through the building’s service life.
M. Sarkisian, D. Shook, J. Zhang
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Low-embodied carbon footbridges

Footbridge Chur 2025, Chur: in situ
<p>This paper draws upon the work of the Net Zero Bridges Group (NZBG) to ask how we can maximise the positive “carbon benefits” associated with footbridges, while minimising the “carbon costs” associated with their construction and maintenance. Can we ever achieve Net Zero footbridges, where the embodied carbon is itself eliminated?</p><
Brian Duguid, Cameron Archer-Jones, Daniel Green, Chris Hendy, David Knight   +4 more
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EMBODIED CARBON IN TRADE: A SURVEY OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE [PDF]

Journal of Economic Surveys, 2013
AbstractThis paper critically reviews the literature on embodied carbon in trade and evaluates our present empirical understanding of these flows. A careful comparison of quantitative results from this literature exposes significant inconsistencies. For instance, estimates for emission embodied in world trade in 2004 range between 4.4 Gt and 6.2 Gt CO2,
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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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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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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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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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