Sustainability — Embodied carbon

The timber canopy of the Savill building in Windsor Great Park was built using locally sourced wood, making it low in embodied carbon

Your client’s low-energy building has a wind turbine and photovoltaics, the insulation uses sheep’s wool and there’s no PVC.But just how much carbon has been used in assembling the building – and should we worry? Davis Langdon report on an initiative to rate the embodied carbon of buildings.

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