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Sustainable building as a concept sounds easy – use less impactful materials that require less energy, be resilient yet healthy for human occupancy, ...
Sustainable product certifications have traditionally been single attribute based. The most popular of these is the Energy Star label, which focuses ...
Although we’ve seen progress towards diversification from fossil fuels, the reality remains that most of the world’s energy demand comes from and is ...
A life cycle assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to quantify the environmental impacts of a material, product, process, or activity throughout its ...
To understand scopes 1, 2, and 3, it’s important to first understand where these terms are commonly used in the sustainability space – greenhouse gas ...
Constructing new buildings allows general contractors and architects to incorporate sustainable elements and practices. However, it can take between ...
Extended life models for construction products can take many forms, some of which require several systems to be in place to enable such models. Tommy ...
An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is exactly what it sounds like. It is the environmental impact that a product can have on the environment ...
At Kingspan, we believe innovation holds the key to solving the built environment’s greatest challenges. We sat down with Sandra Del Bove, Kingspan’s ...
EPDs don’t contain any proprietary information that manufacturers need to keep within their organization but do disclose the important environmental ...
Plastic pollution is currently one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues. Disposable plastic products are creating a massive waste stream ...
When it comes to buildings, there are two types of carbon emissions: operational carbon and embodied carbon. Operational carbon refers to emissions ...
Around 95% of the value of construction materials is lost as buildings decay into obsolescence and then demolition. This is largely due to the ‘take, ...
Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), a process that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) formed during power generation and industrial processes, ...
Net zero buildings are highly efficient structures that produce as much energy as they use on an annual basis. These buildings incorporate renewable ...
Individuals, households, and industries all produce waste on a daily basis. How we manage these waste streams directly influences their impacts – to ...
Tell us about your career journey thus far I studied architecture at Penn State University and was fortunate enough to have James Wines as my thesis ...
When it comes to reducing carbon emissions in the manufacture of insulated metal panels (IMPs), steel plays a critical role. That’s because steel is ...
High carbon, resource-intensive approaches to business operations are heating up the planet, contributing to the pollution of air, land and sea and ...
Planet Passionate, our 10-year sustainability program is a driving force for reducing our environmental impact. Kingspan plants and operations across ...
Net zero has become a buzz word in sustainability circles, but what exactly does it mean? To put it simply, net zero refers to a state in which there ...
Energy originates from a variety of sources, serves a multitude of purposes, and can be both consumed and produced. It can also be converted from one ...
Waste diversion refers to the practice of reducing, reusing, and recycling waste materials instead of sending them to landfills or incinerators. For ...
Last year, CO2 in the atmosphere reached record levels at 417 parts per million – levels not experienced by the atmosphere in several million years. ...
Marine debris, man-made solid material, including trash and litter, that ends up in the ocean, is threatening beaches, coastal waters, estuaries, and ...
