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Winner of A Green Apple Built Environment Award

Posted on by Circular Ecology
Green Apple Award
27
Aug

We are delighted to announce Circular Ecology’s role in winning a Green Apple award for the Built Environment. Circular Ecology’s client New Sustainable Building Model Ltd (NSBM) entered the Green Apple Awards and competed against more than 200 other nominations in the Built Environment & Architectural Heritage category for 2015. NSBM are based in Cambridgeshire […]

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Blog, Buildings, Carbon Footprint, Construction, Embodied Carbon, Energy, News, Sustainability

The Environmental Sustainability of Existing Buildings: Refurbish or Replace?

Posted on by Craig Jones
19
May

There comes a time in the life of every building where extensive refurbishment is required. For many a building this seems to bring with it thoughts of starting again – essentially to demolish and ‘rebuild’. The normal practice in modern times seems to be the preference to demolish and replace. Whereas conservationists naturally prefer to […]

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Blog, Buildings, Carbon Footprint, Construction, Embodied Carbon, Energy, Sustainability

The Carbon Footprint of Thatch

Posted on by Circular Ecology
Environmental Impact Thatch
17
Mar

On Saturday 21 March Dr Stephen Allen of Circular Ecology is giving a talk on the embodied carbon of building materials to the annual conference of the National Society of Master Thatchers. Steve will give an overview of carbon footprinting and what it can be used for, and illustrate this through the results of an […]

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Blog, Buildings, Construction, Embodied Carbon, Sustainability

Is embodied carbon getting the attention it deserves?

Posted on by Craig Jones
Green Construction
31
Mar

Embodied carbon has slowly been gaining attention, but it still lacks the recognition that it arguably deserves. It has been a poor understudy to operational carbon emissions, which traditionally grabs the headlines. But could this be about to change? Perhaps. April 7th to 11th is UK Green Building Council (UK GBC) ‘Embodied Carbon Week’, where […]

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Buildings, Construction, Embodied Carbon, News

The ICE embodied energy and embodied carbon database is now hosted for download by Circular Ecology

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The Inventory of Carbon & Energy (ICE) database is once more available for download. The ICE database has become an important resource in the world of carbon footprinting, with over 15,000 users from all around the world. It is used far and wide and appears in countless reports, carbon calculators, lectures, journals, books and more. […]

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Post Event Blog: ‘In the Scale of Carbon’ exhibition

Posted on by Circular Ecology
27
Sep

Circular Ecology supported Materials Council (www.materialscouncil.com) on their fascinating ‘In the Scale of Carbon’ exhibition, which was in London from Sept 19-22, see www.inthescaleofcarbon.com. The purpose of the ‘In the Scale of Carbon’ exhibition was to put into perspective what 1 tonne of CO2e really means. The guys at Materials Council used their strong connections […]

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