{"id":7148,"date":"2023-09-03T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2023-09-03T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:02:45","slug":"concrete-steel-these-building-materials-put-a-heavy-burden-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/09\/03\/concrete-steel-these-building-materials-put-a-heavy-burden-on-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Concrete, steel... These building materials put a heavy burden on the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This October, the state&#039;s new sustainable buildings policy will require architects and developers in New South Wales to start measuring embodied carbon in their designs as Australia moves towards a low-carbon environment. <strong><span>Philip Oldfield<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0, Associate Professor and Head of the School of the Built Environment at UNSW&#039;s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, explains the dilemma faced by professionals working in the built environment. &quot;\u00a0<\/span>Every square meter we build has a carbon footprint that can be quite high because the materials we build buildings on are very carbon rich. But we can&#039;t just stop building. We have a social responsibility to provide people around the world with healthy, comfortable, safe and sustainable places to live, work and play,&quot; he says. &quot; So the key question for people working in the built environment is: how can we build and at the same time ensure that new construction has as little impact on the environment as possible?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October this year, a new state sustainable buildings policy will require architects and developers in New South Wales to start measuring embodied carbon in their designs, as Australia strives to transition to a low-carbon environment. Philip Oldfield, Associate Professor and Head of the School of Built Environment in UNSW\u2019s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, explains [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikova-stopa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}