The Nucleus at Haysfield Girls' School, Bath: achieving low embodied carbon using renewable materials

• Autores: Ralph Pelly, Tim Mander
• Localización: The Structural Engineer: journal of the Institution of Structural Engineer, ISSN 1466-5123, Vol. 92, Nº. 10, 2014, págs. 12-18
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Nucleus building at Hayesfi eld Girls’ School in Bath (Figure 1) demonstrates how the innovative use of renewable construction materials can help to achieve a highly sustainable structure with low embodied carbon, and how by considering the carbon sequestration of the renewable materials, this can result in a negative carbon footprint.

    The embodied carbon of the structural components has been calculated in a ‘cradle-to-gate’ analysis. The results are presented and compared to the values for comparable structures built using modern methods in steel and concrete.