The top 50 architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) firms, and other key professionals responsible for well over one trillion dollars of global annual construction have rallied around establishing building sector emissions targets to meet the Paris Agreement. The embodied carbon emissions of construction products represent a significant portion of emissions and unlike operational carbon emissions these…
Emissions arising from manufacturing building materials for North American homes add around 65 million metric tonnes of GHGs every year. And the drive to improve energy efficiency in homes may push these emissions even higher. Understanding the impacts of material carbon emissions (MCEs) is critical for all of us in the homebuilding industry. Fortunately, homebuilders…
Climate change, wildfires, excessive heat and a life-threatening pandemic - life as we have known it, no longer exists. Many people from all walks of life and who live in existing housing can no longer escape to their 'castle'. What can be done to provide healthy housing with clean, cool and affordable indoor air to…