Articles Tagged with ''carbon footprint''

Here are some key trends shaping the future of design and construction, focusing on improving productivity, sustainability, and client satisfaction.

The panels support higher Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) by enabling improved thermal comfort and are part of the Armstrong® Total Acoustics® product portfolio, offering enhanced sound-blocking and sound-absorption performance.

NEU: An ACI Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete shared developments from their Fall 2024 Summit held on October 17, 2024, in Columbia, Md., with NEU members and federal agencies in attendance.

At the event, Dow discussed why reducing embodied carbon in building materials such as silicones is important for reducing greenhouse gases, how key elements of the PAS 2060 standard help ensure verified carbon neutrality and more.

Materials Compass gives designers, engineers, and specifiers access to the world’s largest construction life-cycle assessment (LCA) database, showing the environmental impact of more than 250,000 construction products. 

The event confronts the hot topic of “How Data Centers Pave the Way for a More Sustainable World” in a roundtable discussion format, convening top representatives across the value chain of the topic. It will take place at the offices of Arup in San Francisco, and is open to the public.

In this position, Donovan will be pivotal in driving Ecocem’s business development initiatives as the Dublin-based company brings its scalable low-carbon cement technologies to markets across North America. 

More refrigerants means more carbon. We need to better prioritize refrigerants in the building sector carbon conversation.

Now more than ever, it’s critical that we’re committed to embodied carbon reduction. To do this, AEC professionals need to focus on reducing the embodied carbon of materials and construction processes, which is often overlooked but crucial for overall carbon reduction