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...Christopher Noel Trott; Caroline Noller; Nelly Martinez Fonseca; Blerina Celniku This paper addresses the challenges of implementing the Paris Agreement’s climate goals within the built environment. It introduces an innovative ‘whole life carbon’ approach that integrates life-cycle assessment (LCA...

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... Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2023 buildings, structures and design built environment safety In everyday language, the term facade implies something superficial applied to the exterior of a building or structure – or a person! In engineering terms, a facade is everything...

..., and the efficient use of energy. It is found, for bricks and timber, that EPD show products that use a greater percentage of renewable energy have higher embodied energy, suggesting a less efficient use of renewable energy for these products. built environment embodied carbon embodied energy energy efficiency...