RICS stresses the importance of developing a methodology for measuring embodied carbon in Europe’s buildings and presents the final draft of its information paper on whole life carbon calculation, at a conference organized in the framework of the sixth edition of the EU Sustainable Energy Europe Week (Thursday June 21, 2012).
As the EU drives the requirement for low-energy, nearly zero energy and carbon buildings, the role of embodied carbon becomes increasingly significant.
With the conference entitled ‘Are zero energy buildings really zero: from operational efficiency to embodied energy and carbon’, RICS aims at raising awareness and providing the latest knowledge, experience and thinking on whole life carbon by: