Hiding in Plain Sight: Embodied Carbon & MEP Systems
Most industry embodied carbon targets and benchmarks focus on architectural building materials, without considering the embodied carbon impact of mechanical,…
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The cost (and necessity) of fuel-switching
Our current Prime Minister is our COVID Prime Minister. The next Prime Minister will be our climate change prime minister. They will be the PM that meets the UN…
Technical: Embodied carbon values of common insulation materials
Like many architects, we have begun to pay much closer attention to the embodied carbon associated with the materials we are specifying. All other things being…
Home Products: R-Hauz, Toronto, Ontario and Intelligent City, Vancouver, British…
Toronto and Vancouver start-ups are using high-tech prefabrication to produce infill housing that’s better designed, better for the environment—and costs less…
What can we do about embodied carbon?
Embodied carbon explained
“Embodied carbon” is an imperfect term. The word “embodied” sounds like we’re talking about carbon encapsulated in a material.…
Letter to the Editor: Architecture’s blind spot
Thank you for shining a light on the enormous blind spot of our industry—embodied energy—in July’s issue of Canadian Architect. Anthony Pak’s observation that…
Embodied Carbon: The Blindspot of the Buildings Industry
Embodied carbon will be responsible for almost half of total new construction emissions between now and 2050.