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Advancing sustainable construction: Specifying low-carbon concrete

Construction Specifier

are vulnerable to flooding, hurricanes, tornados, and wildfires, motivating insurers to take steps to educate policyholders on fortifying their buildings to help make disasters less damaging and costly. Concrete can also be produced from recycled products, plus it is recyclable and has a long lifespan.

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Rating Wood - The big picture

SAB Magazine

points for fly ash promote the use of concrete], at the heart of the matter is the fact that unlike European and Japanese systems, North American rating systems have been slow to adopt life cycle assessment as a means to quantify the impacts of material choice.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

These factors include… poor formal and professional education in the domain, low investment in research and development, deep rooted project culture, perceived long life-cycle of associated return on investment, resistance from construction projects’ participants and stakeholders, and lack of real property owner leadership and competency.

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Bamboo Building in Myanmar

Natural Building

When he was asked to design a new school in Shan State his bamboo education began. Bamboo has long been eclipsed by timber and concrete as a permanent building material. He learned about the unique perennial growing characteristics of the bamboo, producing useable timber year-in, year-out over the 50 to 100-year life cycle.

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California Embodied Carbon Legislation: How to Prepare for AB 2446

Stok

Some exciting news coming out of California means big things for Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), which analyze a product’s full life cycle environmental impacts and identify prioritized areas for carbon reduction. Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) dives deeper in its embodied carbon policy educational series.

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New and Old Sustainable Building Materials

Natural Building

The manufacture of concrete, steel, and glass uses vast amounts of raw materials and water and emits copious amounts of greenhouse gases per year. Moreover, embodied carbon, which is carbon released over the entire life cycle of a building, including end-of-life material disposal, is responsible for 11% of total global carbon emissions.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. Tuesday and Wednesday: Conference Educational Sessions. Friday: BIM Academic Education Symposium. The buildingSMART alliance Conference Educational Sessions are broken into two days.

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