Climate change: and whole-life carbon in new-build

The construction/building/architects industries are getting serious about what they do:
Futures Forum: Climate change: and the built environment: "Why clients and law-makers need to wake up to climate emergency... and why they should ask architects what to do."
Futures Forum: What can be done to mitigate the huge impact of construction on climate change?
Futures Forum: Climate change > and getting buildings to 'net zero'

And one area is the 'whole-life carbon' impact of what they do:
Whole-life carbon: RIBA and RICS guidance | Features | Building
A bigger picture | Sustainability: whole life carbon | isurv

It can get quite technical:
Whole life carbon – a building case study

It's connected to the idea of 'embodied carbon':

Embodied Energy and Carbon | Institution of Civil Engineers

And 'net zero' buildings:

Advancing Net Zero - UKGBC - UK Green Building Council

Targeting Zero, Delivering a low carbon future

Here's an example: 

A whole life carbon approach identifies the overall best combined opportunities for reducing lifetime emissions, and also helps to avoid any unintended consequences of focusing on operational emissions alone, e.g. the embodied carbon burden of changing double glazing to triple can be greater than the operational benefit resulting from the additional pane. Therefore, whole life carbon needs to be effectively integrated in the sustainability agenda to achieve a lower carbon future. 

WLC_implementation_in_the_built_environment_PDF.pdf

The Architects' Journal looks at where we are now: 

The AJ asked experts in sustainable design why whole-life carbon is important for architects to think about in their day-to-day work

VIDEO: WHY DOES WHOLE-LIFE CARBON MATTER FOR ARCHITECTS?
Video: Why does whole-life carbon matter for architects? | News | Architects Journal

Featuring:
Duncan Baker-Brown, BBM Sustainable Design and senior lecturer, University of Brighton
Hero Bennett, sustainability consultant, Max Fordham
Michael Pawlyn, director, Exploration Architecture
Mina Hasman, SOM associate and member of RIBA commission on Ethics and Sustainable Development
Anthony Thistleton, founder and director, Waugh Thistleton Architects

Film by Edward Bishop of Stephenson/Bishop

VIDEO: WHY DOES WHOLE-LIFE CARBON MATTER FOR ARCHITECTS?

Video: What power do architects have to reduce whole-life carbon?

Video: What practical steps can architects take today to reduce whole-life carbon?


Video: Why does whole-life carbon matter for architects? | News | Architects Journal
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