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Buildings With Less Embodied Carbon (Part 2 of Sustainability in Construction)

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President Obama How buildings contribute carbon emissions My last article here dealt with the roles of buildings in CO2 emissions and climate change in general. Because buildings contribute more than a third of global emissions, architects must design buildings to be less polluting, to be carbon neutral or even carbon absorbent.

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British Library Boston Spa, West Yorkshire building

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British Library Boston Spa, West Yorkshire Storage Building Development, UK Property News. British Library Boston Spa, West Yorkshire building. • New low carbon automated storage building will use the highest levels of air tightness to achieve maximum energy efficiency. British Library Boston Spa, West Yorkshire.

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BDP Architecture Practice Information + News

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BDP Architects Offices, Building Design Partnership News, Studio Designs, UK Practice. International Architects Practice – Buildings + Designs: Office News Updates. Edinburgh St James building: image courtesy of architects practice. BDP Architecture Office. 12 November 2022. million. •

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Rotterdam 2023: Part 2 - Urban Design and Architecture

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In the previous blog about transportation in Rotterdam I touched on Rotterdam's devastating bombing in a Nazi Germany air raid that turned much of historic Rotterdam into rubble and cost over 700 lives in a single night and how the city planners have turned this tragedy into an opportunity of re-invention and development that came in various phases.

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A House Design with an Australian Theme and Composite Structure

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They decided to build the best house design in their neighbourhood to remind them of the one they saw in their settlement there. Without this, the beam will bear the weight of the entire structure, jeopardising the building’s structural practicability. As a result, they wanted to bring some of that feeling back home with them.