As the industry continues to address the challenge of reducing carbon emissions relating to buildings, a number of new processes and disciplines have come to the fore.
There has been much talk of whole life costs, and the calculation of embodied energy when selecting materials for construction products. Associated with these two disciplines, but taking a broader stance, is the area of life cycle assessment (LCA). LCA is essentially focused on reducing the impact of people on the planet and capturing the real environmental cost of products and services. Put another way, it’s about finding ways of getting more for less.
A good example of this is the Olympic Stadium. The Bird’s Nest in Beijing used 49,000 tons of steel, while the stadium in Stratford used 4,600 tons — both seated 100,000 people.
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