Delivering on the climate emergency : towards a net zero carbon built environment / Deo Prasad, Aysu Kuru, Philip Oldfield, Lan Ding, Malay Dave, Caroline Noller, Baojie He.

"This book provides much needed insights into the scale and nature of the challenges we all face in reducing the impact of built environments on our shared climate. It plots safer pathways forward for reducing operational and embodied energy in construction and refurbishment. It should be manda...

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Main Authors: Prasad, Deo K. (Author), Kuru, Aysu (Author), Oldfield, Philip (Philip Francis) (Author), Ding, Lan (Author), Dave, Malay (Author), Noller, Caroline (Author), He, Baojie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
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Table of 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.