Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The State of Massachusetts last year established a Community Climate Bank to fund low-carbon projects aimed at affordable rental housing agencies. Other governments have opted for carrots instead of sticks. It can sometimes just be cheaper to knock down a building rather than retrofit it,” Wainwright observes.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Green Bond proceeds require achieving a minimum 20% reduction in upfront carbon emissions through the adaptive reuse of existing buildings (i.e., avoiding demolition and construction) where appropriate, and the use of low embodied carbon construction practices in major refurbishments and new construction.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

These included community engagement programs, an Indigenous-relations roadmap, a sustainable-construction training program, and R&D exploring the powers of life-cycle assessment to reduce the embodied carbon of building projects. “I He also advises public banks on greening their investments. trillion in coal.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This includes stepping up ambition in NDCs to include building decarbonization targets that contain the so-far largely overlooked embodied carbon, emissions from the production of building materials. Governments need to commit to further decarbonising the power, as well as heating and cooling energy supply.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

Going forward, it will include lifecycle assessment of materials employed in the construction phase as part of the development design as a way of reducing embodied carbon, waste and pollution. The programme will target a broad range of ESG themes, aligning with the objectives of the EU’s environmental taxonomy.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A prime example includes banks of buffer hold bags that can be closely aggregated with daisy-chained jacket-coolant supply or small volume processes for ATMP products that can be localized on a benchtop only requiring gas utility supplies. Equipment Density: Single-use systems have the advantage with facility space constraints (i.e.

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