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Using Carbon Accounting in Project Planning and Decision Making
The pressures of urbanization place demands on city infrastructure and connections among cities. The rapid urbanization in the latter half of the 20th century was carried out against a backdrop of depletion of limited natural resources; generation of wastes, including greenhouse gases; and inefficient use of energy. The Brundtland Commission and subsequent 1987 report recognized this behavior as globally unsustainable. Over the past 25 years, much effort has been expended to establish carbon emissions on a country-by-country basis to demonstrate reductions against a baseline. There has been a transformation in energy consumption in commercial and residential buildings as a result of concerted efforts in energy conservation. However, the construction of buildings and infrastructure and the operations and maintenance of infrastructure have received comparatively little attention, despite being responsible for significant proportions of global greenhouse gas emissions. This paper concentrates on the use of carbon accounting and embodied energy methods for a wide range of ground engineering construction activities. The authors examine concepts of capital and operational carbon and associated payback period and provide examples that show how this holistic approach can result in design changes and considered choices in construction and maintenance means and methods.
Using Carbon Accounting in Project Planning and Decision Making
The pressures of urbanization place demands on city infrastructure and connections among cities. The rapid urbanization in the latter half of the 20th century was carried out against a backdrop of depletion of limited natural resources; generation of wastes, including greenhouse gases; and inefficient use of energy. The Brundtland Commission and subsequent 1987 report recognized this behavior as globally unsustainable. Over the past 25 years, much effort has been expended to establish carbon emissions on a country-by-country basis to demonstrate reductions against a baseline. There has been a transformation in energy consumption in commercial and residential buildings as a result of concerted efforts in energy conservation. However, the construction of buildings and infrastructure and the operations and maintenance of infrastructure have received comparatively little attention, despite being responsible for significant proportions of global greenhouse gas emissions. This paper concentrates on the use of carbon accounting and embodied energy methods for a wide range of ground engineering construction activities. The authors examine concepts of capital and operational carbon and associated payback period and provide examples that show how this holistic approach can result in design changes and considered choices in construction and maintenance means and methods.
Using Carbon Accounting in Project Planning and Decision Making
Walker, Martin (author) / O'Riordan, Nick (author) / Pantelidou, Heleni (author)
Geo-Congress 2014 ; 2014 ; Atlanta, Georgia
Geo-Congress 2014 Technical Papers ; 3880-3889
2014-02-24
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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