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The embodied carbon of materials is a hard concept to sell — and an even harder one to define and measure. But one thing is certain: this unseen footprint needs to fall
Three engineers offer solutions to a developer’s challenge
The process of defining and calculating embodied carbon is complex, occasionally contradictory and constantly evolving
We need to completely rethink the way we use structural materials, argues Cambridge engineering expert Julian Allwood
Can there be good, sustainable reasons to specify cement-based structures?
How do we find out what state a building is in without disrupting the existing tenants?
Trees and hedges can mitigate pollution … but also exacerbate it
Can building materials and biotech help to suck pollution from the air?
Air pollution kills more than 4 million people every year. How do we stop our towns and cities from choking?
Shipping and cruise industries pose a variety of threats
Replacing old fleets is one of the quickest routes to cutting pollutants
How do we prepare for a future that is both entirely certain and completely unknowable?
We can’t completely predict climate change, in part because it depends on how we react to it
Take every chance to fix issues before it is too late, says WSP’s Michael Mondshine
Three engineers, armed with drones, robot bins and pneumatic tubes, take on hospitality’s eternal towel problem
Do the two climate-change disciplines need to talk to each other more?
3D archive brings threatened heritage to a wider audience
The latest digital modelling technologies allow us to step inside building designs and conceive of places we never thought possible
Transport hubs play a key role in their communities as places to gather or pass through. How can we get the most out of them?
WSP’s 3D model incorporates infrastructure and covers 450 square miles
In a circular economy, how could we design a completely recyclable building?
Carbon-neutral alternative uses no Portland cement at all
CLT can create lighter, less variable structures
There is considerable excitement about high-rise timber — has its time finally come?
ETH Zurich and MIT explore digital casting for complex concrete forms
Completely new materials may not come along very often, but scientists are remixing old ones — and it’s changing the shape of our cities
How Laing O’Rourke and WSP built a hospital out of 15,000 pre-assembled elements
Is this the solution to reconciling mass-production and creative architecture?
Melbourne contractor Hickory’s 44-storey tower was completed in just 16 months
