Profile: Kate Simonen

Author: Jackie Whitelaw

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1 June 2020

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Profile: Kate Simonen

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Jackie Whitelaw

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The Structural Engineer, Volume 98, Issue 6, 2020, Page(s) 3

https://doi.org/10.56330/YMDK7531

Date published

1 June 2020

Author

Jackie Whitelaw

Citation

The Structural Engineer, Volume 98, Issue 6, 2020, Page(s) 3

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56330/YMDK7531

Price

Free

Article (PDF)

Kate Simonen has been promoting the cause of embodied carbon reduction in structures for the past decade through the Carbon Leadership Forum. Now the Institution of Structural Engineers in the UK and the Structural Engineering Institute in the USA have put their weight behind initiatives to drive embodied carbon down to zero by 2050.

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