Sentences with phrase «high embodied energy»

But the building sector, the designers, also have huge influence on the industrial sector, on the types of materials that they manufacture and whether those materials have high embodied energy or low embodied energy and, therefore, would cut your greenhouse gas emissions.

Every one of them has its share of virtues and faults, among toxic chemicals, high embodied energy, and flame retardants.

The result is a sturdy, weather proof wall, without the need for complicated material applications with high embodied energy.

Well - insulated new homes eventually make up for their high embodied energy costs through lower operational CO2 but it takes several decades - in most cases more than 50 years.

It is a lot easier pay back the loan if you don't use materials with high embodied energy like concrete, plastic or aluminum.

Not exact matches

Demolition and replacement of existing school buildings involves a high carbon impact, landfill implications and associated costs as well as the material impact of the replacement new build and the loss of the embodied energy within the buildings demolished.

Once you are building to such a high energy efficiency standard, embodied energy really matters, and I continue to believe that it should be part of every Passivhaus designer's toolkit; I think it should be built right into their giant spreadsheet.

The embodied energy of meat vs. nonmeat options will always be higher, when the nonmeat options are local, but you're right — the distance that the food travels, and the processing always needs to be considered too.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

The study finds that electricity from fossil fuels, hydro and bioenergy has «significantly higher» embodied energy, compared to nuclear, wind and solar power.

Given sufficient service life even materials like aluminum, which is high in embodied energy and environmental impacts, can have their eco-sins absolved.

-- that James Hansen's research strategy for verifying and validating climate change science, as set forth in his Earth's Energy Imbalance and Implications so strikingly embody the same NASA V&V principles that are associated to successful spacecraft design... particularly in emphasizing the absolute necessity for multiple, high - quality, redundant, cross-checked, climate measurements of global span!

Yes, excessive embodied energy use should be avoided; and yes, high price is an indicator.

Cons: the health risks are potentially very high, ALL spray foams contain toxic ingredient Isocyanate (even those that have a percentage of soy and claim to be «eco»), embodied energy is extremely high while R value is relatively low and equivalent to so many other cheaper and more eco products, soy or castor oil content is at most 10 %, the potential for off gassing and making inhabitants ill are significant, must hire a professional to install.

There is no increase in framing materials from standard construction, but the embodied energy of the system increases with the addition of high density spray foam insulation.

Research has shown that the infrastructure needed to move and clean water for city use can actually have a higher overall embodied energy than localized water collection and reuse at the building scale.

He stated that we don't want to just buy new products because they're energy efficient, since the actual energy consumption of that product after factoring in embodied energy is very high.

Electronics are high in embodied energy, and the numbers heading to e-waste dumps are skyrocketing.

Using HDPE (high - density polyethylene) plastic — that's # 2 plastic for you recyclers out there — the RD4 chair aims to to view waste plastic packaging as a valuable resource as opposed to an ecological difficulty, utilize the embodied energy present in waste plastics as effectively as possible, and generate a new recycled design aesthetic, breaking from traditional flat - pack forms, while stimulating debate around recycling and the traditionally understood aesthetics of recycled products.

Your worst - case 2010 attack on EVs was based on purely coal - generated charging, which is rapidly becoming obsolete in parts of the world where EV demand is highest (which you failed to consider), and the embodied energy in producing batteries that you expected would be disposed of.

If energy consumption during the use phase is zero but embodied energy is high, a system can still consume a lot of energy, although it does not seem to be that way.

I agree that the outgassing poblem is largely overblown (except for those few who have become chemically - sensitized and have to spend the rest of their lives avoiding the world), but there are many legitimate arguments against the use of a petrochemical, high - embodied energy, non-renewable, non-recyclable, non-permeable, difficult to remove, problematic for renovation, and expensive insulating material.

Aluminium door frames, although considered high in embodied energy were obtained in a «mill - finished» or uncoated metal state to eliminate extra processing.

A playful combination of «cool» and «culture,» the term embodies the company's high - energy, people - focused, can - do environment, punctuated throughout with a healthy dose of fun.