How to calculate embodied carbon (Third edition)

Author: O P Gibbons, J J Orr and W Arnold

Date published

20 January 2025

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PDF: Free
Print: Standard: £69.95/Member: £44.95/Student: £34.95
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How to calculate embodied carbon (Third edition)

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Author
O P Gibbons, J J Orr and W Arnold
Date published
20 January 2025
Price
PDF: Free
Print: Standard: £69.95/Member: £44.95/Student: £34.95
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Author

O P Gibbons, J J Orr and W Arnold

Date published

20 January 2025

Author

O P Gibbons, J J Orr and W Arnold

Price

PDF: Free
Print: Standard: £69.95/Member: £44.95/Student: £34.95

A comprehensively refreshed set of embodied carbon calculation principles for the structural engineering community to follow.

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Following this guidance will:

•            Help you select and specify materials that are efficient while ensuring they're safe and durable

•            Establish an agreed set of principles for the measuring of embodied carbon

•            Assist you in reducing the amount of carbon you use in your projects

•            Allow you to quantify the benefits of low carbon design to the client and society

•            Increase your awareness of alternative ways of moving towards net zero carbon design

For an outline of the updates made to this third edition, read this free article published in The Structural Engineer.

The guide supports the sustainability-related core tasks in The Structural Plan of Work 2020 and has also been translated into an open-source Excel estimator: The Structural Carbon Tool — version 3, to quickly identify ways to minimise embodied carbon on your designs. It is aligned with the recently updated and relaunched second edition of the RICS Professional Statement: Whole life carbon assessment for the built environment, to BS EN 15978, and is also used as part of compliance with the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard.

Enabling carbon action: The Structural Carbon Tool

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Format:
Book (Print or PDF)
Pages:
80
Publisher:
IStructE Ltd

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