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During his final 20 months in the U.S. Navy, Carlos Diaz was part of a team deconstructing a nuclear aircraft carrier for refurbishment. The experience made him want to be a designer.
Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program is supporting the ambitious SE 2050 Challenge, which states that “all structural engineers shall understand, reduce and ultimately eliminate embodied carbon in their projects by 2050.”
The U.S. General Services Administration has issued an RFI as part of a fact-finding mission to help establish federal agency procurement
preferences for construction materials and goods that contain less embodied
carbon.
After recently passing its first anniversary as a public company, the construction tech provider is stepping up efforts for its users to track greenhouse gas emissions in construction.
UK and Finnish technologies provide designers quicker reads of embodied carbon impacts of their structural and materials choices. "We've been waiting for [something like this] for as long as I've been in the industry," says one engineering firm manager.
Growing up, Brian Earle’s family moved every couple of years. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany; relocated several times to U.S. cities; and attended high school in Seoul, where he lived within artillery range of the North Korean border.
Amazon’s 2.1-million-sq-ft Metropolitan Park office development near the nation’s capital could become a model for other large-scale sustainable projects. The building team is tracking a 15% reduction in embodied carbon in the project's 200,000 cu yd of concrete and the two 22-story buildings are on course to qualify as net-zero operational carbon.