... ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 buildings structures & design energy energy conservation In order to help meet this target, the government tightened energy efficiency standards for buildings (Planning Portal, 2013), and historically introduced a range of programmes...

.... It was observed that there was little difference between embodied energy and carbon for houses and apartments until external works were taken into account (energy inputs for roads, connecting pathways, etc.). 03 04 2008 20 08 2008 © 2008 Thomas Telford Ltd 2008 buildings structures...

... structures & design energy environment It is now widely accepted that man-made emissions of carbon dioxide (CO_{2) are responsible, at least in part, for climate change. Worldwide CO2 emissions from energy consumption were first tackled politically with the 1997 Kyoto Protocol}...