Full Description
This book focuses on the transition towards net-zero carbon built environments to deliver on the climate emergency. It provides an evidence-based roadmap and proposes guidelines to achieving targets covering emerging technologies, materials, innovative design, regulations and policies.
Contents
1 The Climate Emergency and the Built Environment.- 2 Operational Carbon in the Built Environment: Measurements, Benchmarks and Pathways to Net Zero.- 3 Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment: Measurements, Benchmarks and Pathways to Net Zero.- 4 Delivering a Net Zero Carbon Built Environment: Synthesis, Measurability, Targets and Reporting.- 5 Case Studies: Exemplars to Learn From.- 6 Policy Pathways to a Net Zero Carbon Built Environment.- 7 Conclusions and Recommendations: Envisioning a Net Zero Carbon Future in the Built Environment.
