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Developer Fabrix employs urban mining to cut carbon footprint in its projects

Archinect

The process, known as urban mining , recovers and resells raw materials from waste products. ” Fabrix has purchased 139 tons of steel from the contractor behind the demolition of One Broadgate and plans to use it on other projects in London.

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Vestre launches "world's first" furniture made from fossil-free steel

Deezen

The Tellus bench is the world's first item of furniture made from fossil-free steel "Early estimates show that converting all our steel to fossil-free could reduce our overall footprint by around 60 percent," said Vestre chief sustainability officer Øyvind Bjørnstad. Steel is one of the brand's prime targets for slashing its carbon emissions.

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The Heart of the Hill

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Multistory brick buildings, elegant mansions, vintage Victorian homes, boarding houses and hotels, and miner’s cottages scattered across “the Hill,” as it is known locally, once housed an estimated 100,000 people, most of them immigrants who came from all over the world to seek their fortune. Image courtesy Land Design, Inc.

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2022 Projects in the Pipeline

SW Oregon Architect

University of Oregon If I heard him correctly, Darin Dehle , University of Oregon Director of Design & Construction (and former colleague of mine at Robertson/Sherwood/Architects ) said the UO completed projects totaling an astonishing $1.8 government during the Second World War. billion during the past biennium.

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Researchers develop solution that could make carbon capture three times more efficient

Deezen

Direct air capture uptake has been "slow and inadequate" Using this hybrid sorbent has the potential to make DAC more time and cost-efficient, potentially bringing down the price from upwards of $600 per tonne to just $100 a tonne, the researchers estimate. degree threshold set out by the IPCC.

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What’s So Luxurious About Luxury Vinyl Tile, Part II: How LVT Supply Chains Are “Built on Repression”

Architizer

Factories are set up adjacent to coal mines and use coal fired power plants as an energy source. The plants in the XUAR will release an “estimated 49 million tons of global warming gasses, each producing more than any other similar plant” and the estimated air emissions are equal to more than half of the air releases of mercury (14.8

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Six material innovations aimed at slashing concrete's outsized carbon footprint

Deezen

Taking a more experimental approach, researchers from the University of Colorado in Boulder have found a way to make cement using limestone that was grown by algae through photosynthesis, rather than limestone that was mined from the earth. Since concrete is the world's most widely consumed material after water [.]

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