Architecture & Built Environment · Sustainable & Environmental Design
A topic within Sustainable & Environmental Design, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
2 works
World Green Building Council
Argues the building sector must cut the carbon locked into materials and construction now, not only operational energy over decades, because embodied emissions are fixed at completion while efficiency savings pay back too late for near-term climate targets.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Catherine De Wolf, Francesco Pomponi & Alice Moncaster
Reviews how embodied carbon is measured across current industry practice and finds the methods so inconsistent in scope, data sources and system boundaries that published figures for comparable buildings are not actually comparable.
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