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Unit title: Environmental Assessment, Management
and Performance In Buildings.
Presentation title: Could new build houses in the UK be
carbon negative in terms of embodied carbon dioxide?
Unit number: B1
Unit date: March 11th
2009Presentation date: July 7th 2009
Student name: Craig Embleton
Student number: 0750553
Seminar group: 1 (Melissa Taylor)e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.greenfrontier.org
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Could new build houses in the
UK be carbon negative in terms
of embodied carbon dioxide?
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Introduction CO2 balance of a house
3 houses
Summary
Conclusions
Questions
Contents
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Construction: 10% of UK energy.
53.2 Megatonnes CO2 (2008).
Problem
Embodied CO2
Solution?Houses as net CO2 sinks.
Introduction
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Embodied CO2
Released processing:
Plastics, concrete, etc.
Sequestered CO2
Captured in:
Timber, straw, etc.
CO2 balance = embodied - sequestered CO2
CO2 balance of a house
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1. 32 Wentworth Close
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CO2 balance 32 Wentworth Close
Embodied CO2 total = 35.7 tonnes
Sequestered CO2 total = 5.3 tonnes
Balance: 30.4 tonnes CO2
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2. Woodland house
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CO2 balance woodland house
Embodied CO2 total = 15 tonnes
Sequestered CO2 total = 32.2 tonnes
Balance: -17.2 tonnes CO2
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3. ModCell Balehaus
Individual materials breakdownunavailable
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Summary
32 Wentworth Close Carbon positive.
Woodland house
Carbon negative.
Bespoke.
Balehaus
Carbon negative.
Mass production possible.
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Conclusion
Yes
Increase straw and local timber.Reduce concrete, brick and plastics.
Could new build houses in the
UK be carbon negative in terms
of embodied carbon dioxide?
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Questions?
