Resumen de Aspect Structural Engineers
There’s a bewildering amount of information and statistics surrounding the climate emergency, so where to start for structural engineers eager to quickly grasp the scale of the problem and our role in mitigating the eff ects of our design decisions? LETI1 advises that just shy of 50% of the embodied carbon on projects many of us are working on today – medium to large-scale residential and offi ce structures – lies in the superstructure. The foundations will come in short of 20%, so the frame and foundations broadly account for two-thirds of the building’s embodied carbon. That’s quite a chunk of the carbon pie.
For me, that’s why a culture of adopting lean design concepts to address the need for material effi ciency must become the norm rather than the exception; the good news is, there is much ‘low-hanging design fruit’ to pluck to help achieve this.
