3BL Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Developed in collaboration with market research company Statista, the list highlights companies that excel in sustainable growth and financial stability while minimizing their environmental footprint. In September, Trane Technologies became the first in its industry to commit to reducing embodied carbon by 40%.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 30, 2024

today unveiled CarbonLow™, a new line of low-carbon gypsum wallboard to be sold in Canada starting in 2025. With up to 60% less embodied carbon cradle-to-gate than traditional alternatives, CarbonLow™ will allow contractors and homeowners to utilize the quality CertainTeed solutions they trust, while reducing their environmental footprint.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Its integrated solutions for the renovation of public and private buildings, light construction and the decarbonization of construction and industry are developed through a continuous innovation process and provide sustainability and performance. The Group’s commitment is guided by its purpose, “MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME”.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But what makes this development – which includes 12 deeply affordable apartments to be operated by a local non-profit – unusual is that it is hooked into a geo-exchange system. The Canadian government, in turn, has begun offering loans for purpose-built rental development and retrofit projects in multi-family buildings. In the U.K.,

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

By choosing steel made with the HYBRIT technology, AWS shows it’s possible to reduce the carbon footprint of data center construction regardless of whether the steel is made from scrap or virgin iron ore.”

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

The program brings together the top steel buyers across the globe — including construction companies, real estate groups and property developers — and challenges them to commit to procuring 100 percent net-zero emissions steel by 2050. Members include Lendlease, Mace Group, Multiplex Construction Europe and WSP UK.

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2022

and around the globe — and across multiple disciplines — are engaging with building developers, other firms in the building trades, industry groups and building officials to spread knowledge and advance best practices for mass timber construction. Reducing Embodied Carbon. Today, WSP staff in the U.S. CLT Panels.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As more governments around the world take steps against the climate crisis, it becomes increasingly important to understand and implement technologies that allow for development in sustainable and ecologically viable ways. Embodied carbon is all the CO2 emitted in the production of the building.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Atalla will report to Chair and CEO Dave Regnery as part of the executive leadership team and will lead the product development, innovation and sustainability strategies for Trane Technologies globally.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Fons Wijnhoven, Associate Professor at the University of Twente (Netherlands) , have built a system dynamics model that forecasts diverse scenarios for AI electricity demand, highlighting the path forward for sustainable AI development strategies and policies to mitigate environmental impacts.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 22, 2024

As we decarbonise the grid, and as our buildings become more energy efficient, we will reach the stage where operational carbon will no longer be the focus. In its place will be embodied carbon. Embodied carbon refers to all the CO2 emitted; not just from the time of construction and onwards, but the entire lifetime.

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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.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In September, the company became the first in its industry to commit to a 40% reduction in embodied carbon by partnering with material suppliers and incorporating circular design criteria, addressing the significant carbon footprint of buildings.

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Green Technology

MARCH 31, 2025

As climate change drives innovation in design, building reuse emerges as a powerful solution to reduce embodied carbon, honor cultural heritage, and craft modern spaces for todays needs. Join us to explore how rethinking the past can shape a resilient, creative, and sustainable future.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Net zero is a journey, one that will take trillions in new investments, continuous innovation, and a shift in the way we procure and develop the goods we consume, the places we live and work and the way we move about. These investments will impact every stage of project development, from design and procurement to construction and operation.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

On this episode, learn about embodied emissions; carbon embedded in the materials used in the construction of a building. Today, new buildings are increasingly more energy-efficient, which means that the estimated share of embodied carbon throughout the building’s lifecycle are increasing.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

HVAC and climate control solutions company Trane Technologies announced today a new commitment to reduce embodied carbon – greenhouse gas emissions associated with a product’s lifecycle, including the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation and recycling of materials and products – by 40% by 2030.

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3BL Media

MAY 16, 2024

Luckily for us, though, she brought her talents to Owens Corning nearly six years ago, first developing improvements to our shingle materials and more recently as part of our Asphalt team. Asphalt has an impact on the embodied carbon of our shingle product.

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Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 16, 2025

Consistent with the International Energy Agencys zero carbon buildings approach , homes built through the strategy aim to be energy efficient, fully electric and capable of being powered by renewables while driving reductions in embodied carbon. star NatHERS home energy rating.

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ESG Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Launched in August 2022, the Net-Zero Challenge was established as a voluntary initiative to encourage businesses to develop and implement credible and effective plans to transition their facilities and operations to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

Last fall, the Daily Mail disclosed the harsh conclusions of a British housing economist who debunked the national government’s “energy performance certificates” (EPCs) – a rating system for commercial or residential buildings that are being developed, sold or rented. Just 12 years ago, a New York developer erected a US$1.8-billion

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Sustainability Matters

AUGUST 31, 2023

In October this year the new Sustainable Buildings State Environmental Planning Policy will require architects and developers in NSW to start measuring the embodied carbon in their designs as Australia seeks to transition to a low-carbon built environment. What is embodied carbon?

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3BL Media

MARCH 17, 2022

We believe that sustainability is a vital tenet of responsible software development and should be valued as much as security, performance, cost, and accessibility. Carbon Intensity : Consume electricity with the lowest carbon intensity. Embodied Carbon : Build applications that are hardware efficient.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 15, 2023

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.

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3BL Media

MARCH 29, 2024

This involves making our buildings more intelligent, softening the footprint on our environment and developing the capabilities that we'll need in the future to thrive in a technological society.” We help them understand what that strategy looks like and then develop the roadmap to get there,” says Tan. Read more on the CBRE website

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3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

Our awesome innovators have delivered some incredible innovations recently that are enabling huge reductions in embodied carbon and GHG emissions associated with our Styrofoam™ Brand Insulation and Froth-Pak™ Spray Foam products. How has your team’s innovation helped advance DuPont’s sustainability goals?

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3BL Media

JANUARY 25, 2022

SOURCE: City Developments Limited. Maintains its ranking as the world’s most sustainable real estate management and development company for the fourth consecutive year. Reaffirms its commitment to strengthening emissions pathways and carbon reduction efforts to achieve net zero goal by 2030.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

Its integrated solutions for the renovation of public and private buildings, light construction and the decarbonization of construction and industry are developed through a continuous innovation process and provide sustainability and performance. The Group’s commitment is guided by its purpose, “MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME”.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Cement production, a key ingredient in concrete, accounts for approximately 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions, with over 900 kg of CO2 emissions generated for every 1000 kg of material produced. Concrete is the world’s most utilized construction material with approximately 30 billion tons poured each year. ”

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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. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). Manager Sustainability and ESG, JetBlue; New York .

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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Sustainability Matters

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Cement producer Cement Australia, in conjunction with concrete supplier Holcim, is using GreenCem low-carbon cement technology for the first time for a commercial construction project in Adelaide. The new technology replaces general purpose cement with up to 80% fly ash and/or slag.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 24, 2024

Officials from the India Meteorological Department attributed the length of the unrelenting heat wave, ironically, to what is commonly seen as a marker of urban “development”: a boom in (heat-trapping) high-rises. B y the middle of April, Mumbai had recorded its highest temperature of the last 15 years, approaching 40°C.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2022

The contribution of historic and listed buildings to sustainable development may not at first glance seem obvious. Most heritage buildings were not, after all, built with energy and carbon efficiency in mind. Historic and listed buildings have a vital role to play in our future. A resource to be preserved for future generations.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

New Zealand's Heavy Engineering Research Association (HERA) is developing a 'Materials Passport,' which focuses on how steel components can be reused. Manufacturing structural steel has traditionally been a high carbon activity. Zero-carbon steel isn’t yet commercially available. Taking a hybrid approach.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 28, 2024

When the project is finalized, the investment will reduce the embodied carbon from products produced in Hällekis. The Hällekis plant manufactures stone wool insulation for use in building insulation and technical insulation applications.

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ESG Today

MAY 16, 2024

In the foreword to the report, Microsoft President Brad Smith and Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa said that the increase has been driven by the construction of datacenters, including embodied carbon in building materials as well as hardware components. These are the biggest drivers of our Scope 3 challenges.”

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