Embodied Carbon
Welcome to this edition of the SKINS newsletter, which is all about carbon! As guest editor this month, I am representing FTI’s embodied carbon (EC) working group. This issue highlights several important topics relative to embodied and the trade-offs with operational carbon. We'll discuss a Guide for Action soon to be published, the relative importance of embodied vs. operational carbon, understanding the importance of service life extension in low-carbon design, and understanding Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs, what the do well and not so well), and how to make better carbon-based design decisions. Along the way we point to some of the resources provided by FTI that may help with those decisions.
Helen Sanders
President, Facade Tectonics Institute
Guest Editor
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