Institution of Structural Engineers president on balancing fundamentals with innovation

Brian Uy, the Sydney-based 105th President of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), who delivered his inaugural address ‘Structural engineering: past, present and future’ in January, has identified his key themes for his presidential year as structural efficiency and embodied carbon; technical competency and research; and registration… The post Institution of Structural Engineers president on balancing fundamentals with innovation appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

Structural Engineering Code Review Team Prepares to Release Priority List of Recommendations for Reducing Embodied Carbon

The scope of the committee’s work is focused on identifying topics ripe for reexamination in three primary documents: ASCE 7, ACI 318 and the AISC Steel Manual 

How Virtual-First Design Workflows Can Reduce Waste Before Production

The post How Virtual-First Design Workflows Can Reduce Waste Before Production appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Sustainability conversations in construction have moved significantly upstream in recent years. Embodied carbon — the emissions locked into materials during extraction, manufacturing, and transport — begins accumulating long before a building is occupied. The same logic applies to products: the most impactful decisions are usually made during the specification phase, not after. What follows the […]

The realities of delivering retrofit at scale

Sebastien Ricard is a board director at WilkinsonEyre Across the built environment, the direction of travel is clear. Reuse is increasingly prioritised over demolition and rebuild, driven by the need to reduce embodied carbon and extend the life of existing buildings. “Success will depend on… The post The realities of delivering retrofit at scale appeared first on Construction News.

UK gets first marketplace for second-hand steel bridges

The idea is to give steel spans and other elements a second career, cutting material costs and embodied carbon. The post UK gets first marketplace for second-hand steel bridges appeared first on Construction Management.

Advancing Circular Construction

Efficiency of new buildings in the UK has been improving. While the operational energy progress on embodied carbon, the lifecycle emissions of the materials and components within buildings, has been much slower.

RICS - Reducing carbon through facilities management: Scope 3 emissions 26062023

Building operations and management are an essential means to improve the environmental performance of a building. Yet a building’s carbon footprint is more than its embodied carbon and operational energy use. During this session a panel of experts discuss the importance, challenges and emerging pathways for FM to address Scope 3 emissions - the indirect emissions that occur in a company’s value chain

RICS - WBEF - Carbon measurement and reporting: In partnership with Built Environment Carbon Database 10052023

Reducing the construction impact on the environment starts with achieving consistency in how we report and measure emissions. RICS is collaborating with sector leaders to develop the Built Environment Carbon Database (BECD), a free to access database designed to be the main source of data for carbon estimating and benchmarking in the UK construction sector. During this WBEF Week 2023 conversation session, they explore the instrument and how it will work in practice.

RICS - WBEF - 2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Spotlight on materials 11052023

The 2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction provides a global snapshot on progress of the buildings and construction sector towards decarbonisation, and reviews the status of policies, finance, technologies, and solutions in the sector during the past year. In this video, Mae-ling Lokko, Assistant Professor at Yale University School of Architecture, puts a spotlight on the global impact of materials used in the buildings sector on carbon.

Metroun - Construction Tenders - Sustainability 12042023

Sustainability is becoming more of a key feature within construction Tenders due to the global climate crisis. This Metroun video takes a look at how construction firms can increase sustainability in their practices and effectively answer tender questions of this nature.