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Plan to transform aluminium supply chain gets £3.4 million from UK government

Envirotec Magazine

The planned facility will be able to produce aluminium extrusion billet with less embodied carbon. This material can then be used to make various new metal parts. The facility will also use post-consumer metals, replacing the conventional primary based supply and greatly reducing emissions.

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HGA and Consigli Unveil New Mass Timber Buildings at Bowdoin College

3BL Media

Early in the design process, an HGA structural analysis estimated that a timber frame system would reduce the buildings’ embodied carbon footprint by approximately 75 percent when compared to a traditional steel structure. Consigli began construction of both buildings in April 2021.