Resumen de The Nucleus at Haysfield Girls' School, Bath: achieving low embodied carbon using renewable materials
The Nucleus building at Hayesfi eld Girls’ School in Bath (Figure 1) demonstrates how the innovative use of renewable construction materials can help to achieve a highly sustainable structure with low embodied carbon, and how by considering the carbon sequestration of the renewable materials, this can result in a negative carbon footprint.
The embodied carbon of the structural components has been calculated in a ‘cradle-to-gate’ analysis. The results are presented and compared to the values for comparable structures built using modern methods in steel and concrete.
