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Leading Sustainability Certifications

Sustainable building as a concept sounds easy – use less impactful materials that require less energy, be resilient yet healthy for human occupancy, ...
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Carbon Tax

A carbon tax, in simple terms, is a monetary fee for the environmental and economic impacts associated with the release of carbon dioxide into the ...
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Carbon Capture

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 ...
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What is Life Cycle Assessment

A life cycle assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to quantify the environmental impacts of a material, product, process, or activity throughout its ...
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Embodied Carbon vs. Operational Carbon

Within the sustainability discourse today the term “carbon” is frequently used to represent the impacts that we are having on our climate. Carbon, ...
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What is a Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment?

A Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment (WBLCA) is fundamentally the same concept as a regular life cycle assessment, but on an entire building ...
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It’s All in the Details: Granular, Site-Specific EPDs are Essential to Reducing Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) transparently communicate the environmental impact of any product or material over its lifetime. Like a ...
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The Urgent Need for Retrofitting in the U.S.: Reducing CO2 Emissions from the Built Environment

Constructing new buildings allows general contractors and architects to incorporate sustainable elements and practices. However, it can take between ...
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What is an EPD?

An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is exactly what it sounds like. It is the environmental impact that a product can have on the environment ...
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How to Read an EPD

EPDs don’t contain any proprietary information that manufacturers need to keep within their organization but do disclose the important environmental ...
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Net Zero Buildings: The Role of Insulated Metal Panels

When it comes to buildings, there are two types of carbon emissions: operational carbon and embodied carbon. Operational carbon refers to emissions ...
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Carbon Capture Gaining Momentum as One Solution for Fighting Climate Change

Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), a process that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) formed during power generation and industrial processes, ...
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Where to Use an EPD

Environmental product declarations (EPD) are transparency tools that are useful for a multitude of professionals aiming to understand the ...
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Reducing the Embodied Carbon of Walls in Industrial Buildings

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What is Embodied Carbon?

All building materials go through a life cycle, from raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal. Throughout each phase along this journey, ...
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Embodied Carbon and the Building Envelope

A Unique Continuing Education Course presented by Brent Trenga, Director of Sustainability, North America
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The Role of Steel in the Sustainability of Insulated Metal Panels

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 ...
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Embodied Carbon & Building Material Selection

Kingspan compared the embodied carbon of multiple building materials. Review the results.