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Corgan launches free mass timber carbon calculator

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Developed by Corgan’s sustainability division, Echo, alongside its research group, Hugo, the Corgan Mass Timber Carbon Calculator is designed to help architects and designers estimate biogenic carbon emissions specific to mass timber projects. Corgan Mass Timber Carbon Calculator.

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Elon Musk's Boring Company to build transport tunnel "like a wormhole" in Dubai

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Elon Musk 's infrastructure firm The Boring Company has been given the green light on the Dubai Loop, a 17-kilometre transport tunnel under Dubai that will link the city with speeds of up to 100 miles per hour. A number of large-scale transport and masterplan projects have recently been approved in Dubai. It features a 1.83-kilometre

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Researchers develop artificial sand that can sequester CO2

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Sand dredging also comes with a hefty carbon footprint , with mining and transport linked to high emissions across the construction supply chain. CO2 could be captured at the source from a cement plant, injected into electrochemical reactors built nearby, and turned into a sustainable construction material."We

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Eight ways Paris aims to host the most sustainable Olympics in history

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The Paris 2024 Olympic Games have been billed as the most sustainable ever. While media depictions of Paris 2024 as the greenest ever Olympics are arguably overblown and some have accused the organisers of greenwashing , there can be little doubt that these games are pursuing an ambitious sustainability agenda.

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World's largest cruise ship sets sail amid sustainability concerns

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There are also two tanks of liquified natural gas (LNG) — a first-time fuel source for Royal Carribbean, which has called it "the cleanest fossil fuel available" and the Icon of the Seas its "most sustainable ship yet". The post World's largest cruise ship sets sail amid sustainability concerns appeared first on Dezeen.

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3 ways prefabrication doubles as a sustainability strategy

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3 ways prefabrication doubles as a sustainability strategy 0 qpurcell Mon, 03/20/2023 - 11:09 Modular Building Corie Baker, AIA, shares three modular Gresham Smith projects that found sustainability benefits from the use of prefabrication. Utilizing Prefabrication as a Sustainability Strategy 1.

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Rethinking Urban Futures: Planning the Path to Decarbonization and Sustainable Cities

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Ghaith Tibi is an urban planner and sustainable development advisor with extensive experience in city planning and sustainability advisory projects in the Middle East. Ghaith and I had some time to sit down and chat at COP28 in Dubai about urban planning and decarbonization, including key principles for planning sustainable new cities.