The Routledge handbook on embodied carbon in the built environment /
edited by Rahman Azari and Alice Moncaster.
- xxxvii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to this handbook / Rahman Azari, Alice Moncaster -- Minimising embodied carbon : a question of politics not percentages / Alice Moncaster -- Climate neutral and circular built environment : right here, right now / Guillaume Habert -- Net zero in buildings and construction : use and misuse of carbon offsets / Barnardino D'Amico, Francecso Pomponi -- Characterization of links between embodied carbon and thermal mass / Matan Mayer, James Grinham -- Introduction to section 2 / Alice Moncaster, Rahman Azari -- Building decarbonization in North America / Rahman Azari -- Embodied carbon in building regulation : development and implementation in Finland, Sweden and Denmark / Freja Nygaard Rasmussen and Harpa Birgisdottir, Tove Malmqvist, Matti Kuttinen, Tarja Hakkinen -- Global carbon budgets for the built environment : how far are we to achieve a 1.5°C limit in global warming? A Swiss example / Priore Yasmine, Guillaume Habert, Thomas Jusselme -- The levels process and the life levels project : supporting the development of quality data / Borja Izaola -- Embodied carbon : knowledge building for industry / Aoife Houlihan Wiberg, Harpa Birgisdottir, Freja Nygaard Rasmussen, Tove Malmqvist, Alice Moncaster, Ben James -- Introduction to Section 3 / Rahman Azari, Alice Moncaster -- Approaches and system boundaries for urban carbon accounts / Klaus Hubacek, Yuli Shan, Shaoqing Chen -- Quantifying the sunk carbon costs of cities : a case-study of 50 years of construction in Odense, Denmark / Srinivasa Gummidi, Benjamin Goldstein, Maud Lanau, Gang Liu, Joshua Sohn, Morten Birkved -- Embodied carbon in urban transport : what is the best way to decarbonise? / Shoshanna Saxe -- Introduction to section 4 / Rahman Azari, Alice Moncaster -- Life cycle assessment applied to the eco-design of urban projects in France Bruno Peuportier, Patrick Schalbart -- Method and indicators of climate and resource footprints assessment in building information modelling / Husam Sameer, Clemens Mostert, Stefan Bringezu -- Achieving social justice, environmental justice in safe affordable housing through a materials-centered, multi-level, transdisciplinary approach / DGiulia Celentano, Esther Obonyo, and Guillaume Habert -- Embodied carbon and building retrofit; an example / Freya Wise -- Introduction to Section 5 / Alice Moncaster, Rahman Azari -- Real and apparent variations in embodied carbon impacts within specific construction materials / Jane Anderson -- Three windows : accounting for embodied resources and cultural value / Lynette Widder, Christoph Meinrenken -- Embodied carbon in biogenic and earth materials : accounting for the work of the biogeosphere in construction materials / William W. Braham, Miaomiao Hou, Suryakiran Prabhakaran, David Tilley -- Farm to building : catalyzing the use of net-zero, natural, and healthier building materials / Lola Ben-Alon.
"This handbook explores the critically important topic of embodied carbon, providing advanced insights that focus on measuring and reducing embodied carbon from across the built environment, including buildings, urban areas and cities, and construction materials and components. Split into five distinct sections, international experts, researchers, and professionals present the recent developments in the field of embodied carbon from various perspectives and at different scales of material, building, and city. Following an introduction to the embodied carbon question, the chapters in Section 1 then cover the key debates around issues such as the politics of embodied carbon, links between embodied carbon and thermal mass, and the misuse of carbon offsets. Section 2 reviews the embodied carbon policies in a selected number of countries. Sections 3, 4, and 5 approach the topic of embodied carbon from urban-, building-, and material-scale perspectives, respectively, and use case studies to demonstrate estimation techniques and present opportunities and challenges in embodied carbon mitigation. This will be important reading for upper-level students and researchers in Architecture, Urban Planning, Engineering, and Construction disciplines. Presenting case studies of embodied carbon assessment, this book will also help practicing architects, engineers, and urban planners understand embodied carbon estimation techniques and different mitigation strategies"--