3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
This article is co-authored by Paul Camuti, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, Trane Technologies and Kinnar Ghiya, Vice President, Procurement, Trane Technologies. Trane Technologies moves to reduce embodied carbon Trane Technologies has announced a commitment to reduce embodied carbon by 40% by 2030.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 29, 2021
Simultaneously, the built environment is working on lowering the embodied carbon of buildings — emissions from the manufacture of building materials — which make up about 11 percent of total global emissions. We focused on the United Kingdom, where embodied carbon and reuse of building materials is at the forefront of discussions.
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GreenBiz
JANUARY 27, 2021
Most of the carbon footprint for steel companies comes from Scope 3 emissions, emissions from suppliers downstream, as is the case with many businesses. According to Joshua Davies, sustainability manager for Multiplex Europe, 42 percent of his company’s overall 2019 footprint came from embodied carbon from its suppliers.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 7, 2021
Evaluating energy use and the associated carbon impact needs to take place in real time, given that the mix of power generation on the grid changes frequently, and transmission and other constraints may limit the availability of renewable energy that a building is deemed to have purchased. Carbon Removal. Sponsored Article.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Middaugh noted that Microsoft focuses on metrics around the use of recyclable materials; landfill diversion in terms of solid waste and the construction and demolition waste at its campuses, and an overlapping focus on embodied carbon. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).
Energy Central
MAY 30, 2023
In Massachusetts and elsewhere, advocates and policymakers are increasingly turning their attention to “embodied carbon” contained in building materials. Heating and cooking aren’t the only sources of building emissions is an article from Energy News Network, a nonprofit news service covering the clean energy transition.
GreenBiz
JUNE 29, 2020
One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.
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