A call for carbon-neutral construction
Today’s new buildings could easily last until 2050 and beyond. That's why we now need binding climate targets in the construction sector, argues Guillaume Habert.
Buildings and infrastructure account for 40 percent of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted and as man- made objects with extremely long service lives and slow modernization cycles, the buildings we’re building now will be almost unchanged by 2050. We should therefore already build using post- 2050 energy regulation – but we do not.
The Mazan cultural centre (France) can host 1’000 people in a timber structure insulated with straw bales (De-So Architects and Gaujard Technologie). (Image: Hervé Abbadie/DE-SO Architects)
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