With the construction industry and the built environment being major emitters of carbon, reducing embodied as well as operational C0₂ in new-builds have become paramount twin goals for designers.
Consultant Aecom, like many of its peers, has been working on solutions that might give countries such as the UK a shot at achieving publicised net zero ambitions.
Damon Schünmann spoke to Adam Parkes, Regional Director at Aecom, to discover how they are working on ways to control the spike of emissions at the beginning of a building's life that are responsible for a huge percentage of the building's overall emissions, even when viewed across a 60-year operational lifecycle.
Read Damon's article with Adam here