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I’ll be at Ecobuild on Wednesday and if you’ve got questions about EPD, Embodied Impacts or how LCA could help your business, let me know by using the form below and I’ll be in contact to try and set up … Continue reading →

I just found this excellent visualisation by Amie Shuttleworth of Sir Robert MacAlpine on Shamir Ghumra’s old blog, showing how EPD relate to everything else constructionwise, based on the outcome of a stakeholder discussion held while she was completing her MSt at … Continue reading →

UL Environment and BRE have just announced a Memorandum of Understanding which will jointly recognize each other’s Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) to EN 15804.  Read the full press release here. Whereas the Eco Platform allows member EPD programmes to list their EPD … Continue reading →

A great piece by Jacqui Glass for UKGBC on why responsible sourcing matters in construction.

Using delicious, I have provided a list of many of the embodied carbon case studies, many of which identify savings.  I hope this will be a useful resource. And the news is good.  Many of the projects which have measured and tried to … Continue reading →

I hope, readers, that you’ll find the article I’ve just written for greenspec® useful.  It covers regulation, databases, tools and tips, with lots of links.

Just heard the CIBSE and WRAP are looking at resource efficiency and building services – http://www.cibsejournal.com/news/wrap-doing-more-with-less/.  This area contributes significant embodied impact, but it is currently completely ignored within BREEAM.