New Carbon Architecture

Author is a structural engineer who has designed sustainable building world-wideHe founded the Ecological Building NetworkHe has written three other books on low-carbon buildingThe embodied carbon of building materials accounts for 10% of global carbon emissionsThe author believes the future of buil [...]
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Author is a structural engineer who has designed sustainable building world-wideHe founded the Ecological Building NetworkHe has written three other books on low-carbon buildingThe embodied carbon of building materials accounts for 10% of global carbon emissionsThe author believes the future of building will be an amalgam of the best of traditional and modern construction technologiesThis book explains how it is possible to build using materials which create a carbon sink, absorbing more carbon than they emit through construction materials and the building processThe resulting buildings cost less to build and are more comfortable to live inCovers wood, alternatives to concrete, recycled plastic waste, and materials inspired by biomimicry