One tool to rule them all?
With the growing urgency to measure carbon emissions from building and create warmer, drier, healthier homes, how can evaluation tools help? A Building Research Levy-funded project has been asking industry.
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With the growing urgency to measure carbon emissions from building and create warmer, drier, healthier homes, how can evaluation tools help? A Building Research Levy-funded project has been asking industry.
Build now for climate change
Peddlethorp Architects Director Manuel Diaz reviews the challenges posed by MBIE’s Building for climate change programme and the implications for architects and builders – as well as the benefits for all.
Climate change hazards such as erosion and flooding threaten many coastal communities. While we wait for new legislation to better enable adaptation, pressures for coastal housing and urban development are continuing within an inadequate planning and building framework.
As MBIE’s Building for climate change programme develops, targets will be set for energy use and caps put on embodied carbon. The industry is also encouraged to think innovatively about designing, building and operating buildings.
The embodied impacts of building materials used in construction are under the spotlight. As the focus turns to reducing carbon emissions, there is an impetus to consider the sustainability of materials used.
Dramatically reducing the carbon footprint of residential new builds presents significant challenges for architects, designers and the entire industry. Revisiting basic design principles is one tool that will be useful.
Tinkering around the edges won’t be enough to achieve Aotearoa’s 2050 climate change targets. The new Construction Sector Environment Roadmap for Action shows how success depends on people at every level of the building sector becoming involved.
The development of an easy method for cost consultants to accurately report the amount of embodied carbon a project produces can assist construction to be both sustainable and turn a profit.
BRANZ’s Transition to a zero-carbon built environment programme will continue forging partnerships in 2022 to advance knowledge and help deliver the low-carbon buildings that climate change demands.