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    How To Measure Embodied Carbon Session 2

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    This document summarizes a presentation on measuring embodied carbon in buildings. It discusses two RICS guidance documents on calculating embodied carbon of materials and over the life cycle of a building project. It also covers scopes covered by embodied carbon calculations, including product, construction, maintenance/repair, and end of life stages. A case study is presented on measuring embodied carbon reductions in a Marks & Spencer store project through various sustainable design and material choices.

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    This document summarizes a presentation on measuring embodied carbon in buildings. It discusses two RICS guidance documents on calculating embodied carbon of materials and over the life cycle of a building project. It also covers scopes covered by embodied carbon calculations, including product, construction, maintenance/repair, and end of life stages. A case study is presented on measuring embodied carbon reductions in a Marks & Spencer store project through various sustainable design and material choices.

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    This document summarizes a presentation on measuring embodied carbon in buildings. It discusses two RICS guidance documents on calculating embodied carbon of materials and over the life cycle of a building project. It also covers scopes covered by embodied carbon calculations, including product, construction, maintenance/repair, and end of life stages. A case study is presented on measuring embodied carbon reductions in a Marks & Spencer store project through various sustainable design and material choices.

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    The presentation discusses various methodologies for calculating embodied carbon in buildings including product stage and life cycle assessments. It also presents a case study comparing the embodied carbon of a baseline building design to an agreed low carbon design.

    Methodologies discussed include RICS Methodology to calculate embodied carbon of materials (2012), RICS Methodology to calculate embodied carbon - lifecycle (2014), and BS 15978.

    Things that contributed to reducing embodied carbon in the case study building included the use of materials like PFA concrete, glulam timber, hempcrete walls, timber decking, and recycled/reclaimed materials.

    Session 2: A methodology for

    measuring embodied carbon

    Sean Lockie, Director, Faithful and Gould


    RICS Methodology to calculate embodied carbon

    Sean Lockie, Faithful+Gould


    RICS 2 guides

    Methodology to calculate embodied


    carbon of materials, 2012

    • Information paper targeted at the QS


    community
    • Product stage embodied carbon methodology

    Methodology to calculate embodied


    carbon – lifecycle 2014

    • Global guidance note


    • Life cycle embodied carbon methodology
    BS 15978
    Scopes covered

    Life cycle carbon emissions


    Scopes covered

    Embodied
    carbon

    Operational
    carbon
    Life cycle carbon emissions
    Life cycle carbon emissions
    Life cycle carbon emissions
    Life cycle carbon emissions
    Life cycle carbon emissions
    Impacts vary depending on type of building

    End of life
    Maintenance, Product
    repair

    Construction

    More carbon
    More carbon
    in use
    in product
    Operational
    energy, water

    Product stage
    Drivers for change

    Climate Change Act, 2008


    • Legally binding
    • GHG to be reduced by at least 34% by 2020 and 80% by 2050

    Low Carbon Construction by IGT, 2010

    Other drivers: BREEAM, CEEQUAL, LEED, Planning Authorities


    Not just the QS
    Embodied carbon

    Architect Contractor Project


    Client Manager
    Team track specify work Establish ways to
    record procedures and monitor
    In addition to
    methods that avoid performance
    Set targets passive design,
    research low waste.
    carbon materials
    Struct Engineer for building local sourcing
    envelope and B Services
    finishes avoid half full Engineer
    Research deliveries
    alternative balance
    materials for minimise over- operational and
    foundation and ordering embodied
    structural frame carbon savings
    reduce on-site energy
    consumption
    How the maths works
    Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

    Methodology to calculate embodied


    carbon of materials, 2012

    • Information paper targeted at the QS


    community
    • Product stage embodied carbon methodology

    Methodology to calculate embodied


    carbon - life cycle, 2014

    • Global guidance note


    • Life cycle embodied carbon methodology
    Scope of the RICS guidance

    Scope of the assessment


    Guide is Guide is not
    Aimed at the QS Not intended to replace any of
    the guides that already exist (e.g.
    PAS 2050, Green House Gas
    Protocol, BS EN ISO 14040 or
    15978),
    Works with quantities and Doesn’t go as deep as ‘bottom
    NRM data structure up’ systems such as Sigma Pro
    methodology
    Works with buildings and
    infrastructure
    What is in the guide
    What is in the guide

    Tips on how to mitigate


    The guide contains benchmarks

    Floor area x benchmark

    Embodied carbon benchmarks


    Product stage
    Product stage
    Product stage
    Product stage
    Construction stage
    Maintenance / repair
    How is embodied carbon measured?
    A case study
    M&S, Cheshire Oaks
    • Floor Area 20,000m2
    • Located near Liverpool
    • M+S ‘Plan A’
    • A number of sustainability features
    • A number of sustainability awards
    • Carbon Champion of the Year Award,
    CIBSE 2014
    Sustainability features

    1. Displacement ventilation

    2. Thermal mass / daylight

    3. CO2 refrigeration

    4. Rain water harvesting

    5. Biomass boiler

    6. Green wall

    7. Permeable paving

    8. Biodiversity

    9. POE
    Post Occupancy Evaluation
    ‘Hard ‘issues
    ‘Hard ‘issues
    ‘Hard ‘issues
    Back to embodied carbon...
    The approach

    • This presentation looks at the embodied carbon


    aspects only.
    • 60 year cradle to grave assessment.
    • Created a baseline then...
    • Quantified the reductions in total carbon achieved
    against the baseline Embodied
    carbon

    Operational
    carbon
    Scope of the assessment

    Scope of the assessment


    Foundations & Superstructure Fit-out External Areas
    Structure
    Pads Floor Slabs / Decks Partitions Car Park

    Perimeter Beams Main Building Frame Floor and floor finishes Yard

    Ground Slab Cladding / Walling Units Ceilings Roads

    Roofing Doors

    External Doors Central Plant

    Louvring Gas / Electricity Services

    Water Services

    Ventilation Services

    Drainage

    Lifts
    Creation of a ‘baseline’ – embodied carbon

    • No benchmark existed so a Baseline Agreed design


    baseline was created Foundations Pads and perimeter As per baseline, with
    beam 30% PFA concrete
    • Baseline - No Plan A spec substitution

    Frame Steel frame Steel frames and


    • Traditional retail building glulam joists

    • Specifications listed (right) Upper Floor Concrete Slab Timber Deck


    Slab
    Embodied Walls Masonry Hempcrete
    carbon

    Fit Out Plasterboard Walls; 100% Recycled


    Ceramic Floor Tiles Plasterboard; 40%
    recycled Ceramic
    tiles

    Operational
    carbon
    Results – embodied carbon: life cycle stages
    Embodies
    carbon
    Total Embodied Carbon over 60 years
    20,000
    710

    710
    18,000

    5,200
    16,000
    4,892

    14,000
    Embodied Carbon (tCO2e)

    1,782
    1,814
    12,000
    1,200
    752 Operational
    10,000 carbon

    8,000

    6,000
    11,108 10,728
    End Of Life
    4,000 Maintenance

    Onsite Activities
    2,000
    Delivery

    0 Raw Materials
    20,000t 18,896t
    Things that contributed to reducing the embodied CO2

    Shell and Core

    •30% PFA substitution in Concrete Foundations, Substructure and Superstructure

    •Glulam roof structure (FSC sourced) rather than concrete roof slab

    •Hempcrete walls

    •Removal of 60mm Screed from Ground Slab

    •Timber upper floor deck, rather than reinforced concrete slab

    •75% Recycled Aggregates used in External Areas

    •80% Recycled content Roof Insulation

    •1% Reclaimed steel in Building Frame


    Things that contributed to reducing the embodied CO2

    Fit Out
    •100% Recycled content Fermacell partition walls

    •40% Recycled content Strata flooring tiles

    •40% Recycled content in Interfaceflor Carpets


    It can be very granular

    Embodies
    carbon

    Operational
    carbon
    Results – embodied carbon: building zones
    In summary...

    Methodology to calculate
    embodied carbon in a building’s
    construction life cycle, 2014

    • Global guidance note


    • Life cycle embodied carbon
    methodology
    • Based on BS EN ISO 14040 / 15978
    • High level
    • Aimed at the QS
    sean.lockie@fgould.com

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