Articles Tagged with ''embodied carbon''

The manufacturer has received third-party certification (IAPMO ER-729) confirming its drift and deflection connectors meet major building code requirements, enabling their use on California state-funded projects and reinforcing their role in enhancing structural safety, seismic resilience, and sustainability.

Kingspan Insulated Panels North America released its Sustainability Report, which recaps its North American project milestones for 2024.

A site hardscape's contribution to a project's total embodied carbon can drastically impact the overall project’s embodied carbon footprint.

The manufacturer's low-embodied steel framing give top prize by Green Builder Media.

The Rainscreen Association in North America (RAiNA) announced the official Call for Abstracts for the upcoming 2025 Conference, taking place on November 5, 2025.

With a rebranded focus on carbon reduction, resiliency, and equity, the new version seeks to reclaim LEED’s leadership position in sustainability amidst the rising popularity of other programs like Fitwel and Passive House.

The study explores the positive impact of life-cycle assessments on reducing embodied carbon in construction, the increasing influence of building material choices, and the barriers to further progress.

This structure is part of an ongoing revitalization initiative that has been in motion for 35 years, aimed at transforming a once-thriving industrial and manufacturing area into a vibrant urban hub in Central Los Angeles and Culver City, California.

One Click LCA’s data shows that the carbon reduction potential in construction projects is higher when sustainability is considered from the start.

LEED v5 maintains the same familiar structure of prerequisites and credits, cataloged into broad-based categories. The four certification levels remain. However, one major structural change in LEED v5 is that every prerequisite and credit has been harmonized around three impact categories: decarbonization, quality of life, and ecological conservation and restoration.