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There are challenges to be overcome and there will be more on the road ahead.

Embodied Carbon.alongside the main guide, which offers supplementary guidance to those interested in exploring embodied carbon in more detail.

Helen Hough, our Head of Sustainability, who led the graphics team for the main guide and participated in the workshops collating industry knowledge for the.Embodied Carbon Primer.says, ‘Reducing embodied carbon is just as important as reducing operational carbon, if not more so, as its effect on our environment is mostly felt on day one of a building.

Embodied Carbon Primer.has been written to overcome the knowledge gap in the industry of how to reduce embodied carbon and how we can apply these strategies to our current and future projects.’.

Bryden Wood’s work on Landsec’s Sumner Street office scheme is featured as a case study because it delivers a significant reduction of embodied carbon intensity versus that of a traditional design.

This efficiency is made possible by using P-DfMA (Platforms approach to design for manufacture and assembly) to optimise the use of materials whilst minimising the construction programme and limiting construction waste.We won’t have time for a second chance at getting this right..

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that a considerable proportion of our energy production should come from nuclear; and that the nuclear energy capability needs to be increased significantly (up to sixfold) if we are to curb global warming sufficiently to avoid the worst scenarios.. 7.Given the scale and urgency of the decarbonisation challenge, we need to look carefully at the evidence about the impact and likelihood of the undesirable elements of nuclear power, and the evidence around the effects of continuing to rely on fossil fuels (more specifically the future of coal).

We should not simply pit nuclear against renewables; nuclear and renewable energy technologies will have to work alongside each other.If we do not consider the benefits of nuclear power, then any demand that cannot be provided by renewables will have to be met by the continued use of fossil fuels..