SUSTAINABILITY
50 embodied carbon , and we are embracing technology by developing tools that help us quickly quantify the carbon in our projects at concept and design stage . This means that our engineers can have live feedback reporting to them on the carbon levels in their projects as they make design choices and changes .
Every building we design , we ask the question ‘ what will this building be in 100 years-time ?’ and we then design accordingly , through soft spots in slabs to unconventional grid systems . The data we have collected has been shared with the wider industry so that we can begin to understand how much embodied carbon we find is associated with the materials in our projects . It is a database of information that has been the backbone to a number of academic studies and has led to the growing awareness and importance of embodied carbon whilst fuelling debate on how we can achieve reductions in our designs .
Thornton Tomasetti ’ s embodied carbon measurement tool is expected to be released to the industry and
DECEMBER 2019