A standard method for measuring the embodied carbon of building materials could prove a vital first step towards a comprehensive carbon assessment system for buildings.
The information paper Methodology to Measure Embodied Carbon of Materials has been produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in direct response to the government’s Low Carbon Construction Action Plan, published in June 2011. It called for embodied carbon – that is, the impact of building materials like cement, bricks, glass etc. on the atmosphere in terms of CO2 emissions generated during manufacture, transport and construction – to be considered at every stage of the construction process as well as during operation.
The methodology is intended for use by quantity surveyors, building surveyors, building control surveyors and project managers and aims to address a current lack of consensus on how embodied carbon should be defined and calculated by setting out a practical approach to measuring carbon emissions during a building’s construction.
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