Embodied carbon
Finnish company launches “world’s most carbon-storing building material”
How long should a building last?
Marks & Spencer’s Oxford Street flagship saved from demolition in “huge victory for heritage”
Dezeen In Depth explores why the sustainability of mass-timber buildings can’t be taken for granted
Seratech carbon-neutral concrete wins Obel Award 2022
Retention of existing buildings must be “the starting point” for major London developments
MP Duncan Baker launches bill to cap embodied carbon in UK buildings
Buro Happold pledges to eliminate embodied carbon in projects as part of SE 2050 commitment
Dezeen’s top 10 low-carbon buildings of 2021
Foster + Partners sustainability lead calls for more refurbishments and fewer basements to help fight climate change
Grimshaw’s “completely OTT” Sustainability Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai caused “significant unnecessary emissions”
Marshalls produces concrete bricks with less embodied carbon than clay bricks
MVRDV releases web-based tool to “help architects design with carbon from day one”
California limits embodied carbon in statewide building code
The hidden carbon impacts of getting mass timber wrong
Five key projects by Dezeen Awards judge and MASS Design Group’s Kelly Alvarez Doran
Controversial Oxford Street M&S demolition blocked by UK housing secretary
London mayor reviewing decision to allow Oxford Street M&S demolition in light of new carbon guidelines
Foster + Partners criticises RIBA climate report over “deviation” from global treaty
Three Little Pigs story reinforces prejudices that biomaterials are “terrible”
Norman Foster calls for “higher standards” on embodied carbon at COP26
UK net-zero strategy “totally lacking in ambition” say architects
BREEAM and LEED green certification schemes are “meaningless” says Andrew Waugh
