Embodied carbon for sustainable building conservation
Auteur ou éditeur
Prizeman, Oriel
Lieu de publication
Abingdon, Oxon|New York, NY
Maison d'édition
Routledge
Taylor & Francis Group
Date de publication
2025
Collation
xxi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Résumé
This timely volume provides the latest research, guidance, examples, and methods for understanding, calculating, leveraging, and reducing embodied carbon in building conservation. In the context of climate change and increasing energy costs, imperatives to replace or substantially modify older and historic buildings are rapidly accelerating. The idea that a new or replacement building will perform better overlooks the embodied carbon of that which it replaces. In effect, the pressures of one conservation agenda, that of energy efficiency, threaten to eclipse another, that of heritage. The embodied carbon of existing buildings must be addressed if calculations of operational energy use are to be properly balanced. In this book, an international and multi-disciplinary group of authors offer perspectives on the leverage and implementation of strategies to account for embodied carbon for the conservation of the historic environment. Examples are deliberately diverse and extend beyond buildings to the valorisation of a heritage grassland landscape specifically because of its capacity to store carbon to the fundamental attributes of historic concrete and our responsibility to consider replacement with critical care. This book inspires confidence in developing arguments by spreading examples globally and delivering plausible, actual narratives alongside clear up-to-date guidance. It brings together international standard-setters with practitioners, academics and advocates, all clearly explained. It also illustrates how embodied carbon played a pivotal role in seeking to determine the case of saving Marks and Spencer, Oxford Street, London, from replacement. This will be an essential resource for all building conservation and heritage practitioners including building surveyors, architects, conservators, engineers, conservation officers, building archaeologists, and consultants.
Notes
CONTENTS -- 1. Introduction / Oriel Prizeman -- PART 1 : DEFINITIONS -- 2. Whole life cycle analysis as an imperative for sustainable building conservation / Peter Cox -- 3. Understanding the micro-credentials of embodied carbon from a materials science perspective / Deepankar Kumar Ashish, Riccardo Maddalena -- PART 2 : EXTRAPOLATIONS -- 4. Restoration vs redevelopment : embodied carbon in conserving a 20th-century heritage in India / Jigna Desai, Rajan Rawal -- 5. Carnegie Libraries of Britain : assets or liabilities? Managing altering agendas of energy efficiency for early 20th-century heritage / Oriel Prizeman, Mahdi Boughanmi, Camilla Pezzica -- 6. Characteristics of grassland burning in the Aso cultural landscape, Japan / Yoshitaka Takahashi, Mihoko Muto -- PART 3 : APPLICATIONS -- 7. Case study : rehabilitating the 19th-century housing blocks of Alexandria / Ahmed K. Taher -- 8. Retrofit case studies : an historic university accomodation building and a traditional solid walled house in Ireland / Peter Cox -- 9. Embodied carbon as a pivot : the case of M&S / Henrietta Billings -- 10. Conclusion / Oriel Prizeman -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langue
English = Anglais
Sujet
Sustainable construction
Buildings - Retrofitting - Case studies
Historic buildings - Conservation and restoration - Environmental aspects
Historic sites - Conservation and restoration - Environmental aspects
Urban renewal - Environmental aspects
Value analysis (Cost control)
Carbon dioxide mitigation
Carbon sequestration
Construction durable
Monuments historiques - Conservation et restauration - Aspect de l'environnement
Lieux historiques - Conservation et restauration - Aspect de l'environnement
