About this book
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Following this guidance will:
• Help you select and specify materials that are efficient while ensuring they're safe and durable
• Establish an agreed set of principles for the measuring of embodied carbon
• Assist you in reducing the amount of carbon you use in your projects
• Allow you to quantify the benefits of low carbon design to the client and society
• Increase your awareness of alternative ways of moving towards net zero carbon design
For an outline of the updates made to this third edition, read this free article published in The Structural Engineer.
The guide supports the sustainability-related core tasks in The Structural Plan of Work 2020 and has also been translated into an open-source Excel estimator: The Structural Carbon Tool — version 3, to quickly identify ways to minimise embodied carbon on your designs. It is aligned with the recently updated and relaunched second edition of the RICS Professional Statement: Whole life carbon assessment for the built environment, to BS EN 15978, and is also used as part of compliance with the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard.