As we’ve seen from recent floods and fires, climate change is an increasingly tangible emergency, and we have much to do in order to meet the moment. The Rethink Energy team often talks about the need ...

Embodied carbon is responsible for 11% of global GHG emissions and 28% of global building sector emissions. Embodied carbon is the carbon emitted in the making of building products and construction.

As recently as five years ago, embodied energy was a relatively esoteric subject. Making a building more energy efficient tended to mean reducing operational energy, with upgrades like LEDs, heat ...

Measuring the embodied carbon in buildings is a vitally important piece of the sustainability jigsaw that has until now been missing argues Davis Langdon's John Connaughton Have you ever wondered how ...

With the spiraling cost of building materials, it makes sense that instead of constructing new buildings, it is usually more economical to retrofit or renovate existing buildings to accommodate new ...

High density may be a good thing in cities, but tall buildings are not. It is a standard environmental argument that high densities and tall buildings are greener; it is an excused used in cities like ...

A report by FACIT homes calls for embodied energy to be considered in Code for Sustainable Homes House design in the UK is changing, through regulation, costs, and the drive to push down energy usage.

ITHACA, N.Y. – In the same way that terrestrial life evolved from ocean swimmers to land walkers, soft robots are progressing, too, thanks to recent Cornell University research in battery development ...

Manufacturing nations in the Global North are stockpiling energy and emission problems by outsourcing energy-intensive industrial processes to countries in the Global South. Manufacturing nations in ...