Synopsis
The Nucleus building at Hayesfield Girls' School in Bath demonstrates how the innovative use of renewable construction materials can help to achieve a highly sustainable structure with low embodied carbon, and how by considering the carbon sequestration of the renewable materials, this can result in a negative carbon footprint. The embodied carbon of the structural components has been calculated in a 'cradle-to-gate' analysis. The results are presented and compared to the values for comparable structures built using modern methods in steel and concrete.