Embodied Carbon for Sustainable Building Conservation

This timely volume provides the latest research, guidance, examples, and methods for understanding, calculating, leveraging, and reducing embodied carbon in building conservation. This will be an essential resource for all building conservation and heritage practitioners including building surveyors, architects, and conservators.

1. Introduction. Part One: Approaches and Definitions. 2: Whole Life Cycle Analysis as an imperative for Sustainable Building Conservation. 3: Understanding the Micro-Credentials of Embodied Carbon from a Materials Science Perspective. 4: Restoration vs Redevelopment: Embodied Carbon in Conserving a 20th Century Heritage in India. 5: Carnegie libraries of Britain: Assets or liabilities? Managing altering agendas of energy efficiency for early 20th century heritage. 6: Characteristics of grassland burning in the Aso Cultural Landscape, Japan. 7: Case study: Rehabilitating the Nineteenth Century housing blocks of Alexandria. 8: Retrofit Case Studies: An historic university accommodation building and a traditional solid walled house in Ireland. 9: Embodied Carbon as pivot: The case of M&S. 10: Conclusion