Articles Tagged with ''carbon reduction''

Indoor air quality, operable windows, a daylighting strategy, a verdant landscape, and views of the surrounding environment are additional aspects that enhance occupant wellbeing.

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

This strategic partnership will enable USGBC members to leverage these federal programs by offering educational resources and discounted access to life-cycle assessment software tools.

One Click LCA has launched the Low-Carbon Manufacturing Awards 2024. This contest offers manufacturers a platform to show the steps they are taking to decarbonize the construction industry and reach ambitious net zero goals, like the European Green Deal.

Building Enclosure was recently joined by Daniel Overbey. Dan is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Ball State University and the Director of Sustainability for Browning Day in Indianapolis. He joined us to chat about some trends in sustainability and how this ties into LEED v5.

In many cases, building envelope design is mostly a matter of aesthetics and costs. As attention to environmental issues grows, however, sustainability and energy-related concerns play an increasing role in these decisions. The push to reduce urban heat island effects is one of the most prominent of these concerns.

NEU, an ACI Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete, successfully held its Spring 2024 Summit titled “From Policy to Placement: Implementing Reduced-Carbon Concrete Construction” on the campus of the University of California, Davis (UC Davis).

The new 2,000 sq.ft. InSpire® wall, installed in October of 2023, preheats 6,000 cfm of outside air feeding the plant while reducing its carbon footprint by 12,3 tons of CO2, year after year, for the next 25 years.