Carbon

Carbon Cycle and Storage
Carbon Cycle and Storage
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The carbon cycle is essential for life on Earth: through processes like photosynthesis, respiration, and fossilisation, carbon is stored in organic matter, fossils, and the atmosphere.
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Scotts Timber Engineering awarded Carbon Footprint certification
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Scotts Timber Engineering has been awarded a Carbon Footprint certification from Go Climate Positive, a provider of carbon management and offsetting services. To date, Scotts is the only timber engineering business to receive a Go Climate Positive certification. This shows that Scotts is currently producing a third less carbon per...
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embodied carbon
Whole-life embodied carbon in multistorey buildings: steel, concrete and timber structures
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According to this analysis, choosing engineered timber for structural frames in preference to concrete or steel is a straightforward way of reducing the whole life embodied carbon of the frame.
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A Passivhaus haven of timber tranquility
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A timber-framed Passivhaus in Warwickshire, Larch Corner boasts some truly impressive credentials. Mark Siddall, of architecture practice LEAP, took on a challenging project and delivered an extraordinarily efficient building. It is 195 times more airtight than 2023 UK building regulations require. It is also a haven of timber-based tranquillity –...
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Is mass timber the future of the workplace?
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The use of mass timber in the commercial sector has seen a recent flourishing in the UK, with increasing interest from investors. Here, some of the frontrunners in the industry explain why. Occupiers want healthy and sustainable workspaces Alex Dunn, research manager at Cromwell Property Group, has undertaken extensive research...
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TDUK calls for greater balance in RICS’ Whole Life Carbon Assessment consultation
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The consultation on the Whole Life Carbon Assessment for the Built Environment, RICS Professional Standard, comes to a close on Tuesday 18 April. RICS has updated its standard to ensure it supports well-informed progress towards net-zero. Its key changes focus on providing a consistent output, to assist with benchmarking and...
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Watch back the timber and fire safety webinar
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Gain insight into the principles of fire safety when designing and construction timber buildings from the creators of our latest resource, https://timberfiresafety.org, in this special one hour webinar. On 1 March, the timber industry (Swedish Wood, Timber Development UK, and Structural Timber Association) launched a comprehensive new fire safety website: Fire Safety. Wood...
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One Click LCA tool
Member survey on One Click LCA’s EPD Generator Tool
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The timber industry is uniquely placed to deliver the Net-Zero Carbon agenda, however many of the products we deliver into the supply chain still do not have sufficient carbon data associated with them, increasingly required in the form of an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). One Click LCA is a pre-verified...
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Net Zero Action plan tracker
Net Zero Action plan tracker
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This Action Plan Tracker is intended to provide members with a single document that will guide them through the four stages of moving to Net Zero
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net zero strategy
Net Zero Strategy template
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This slide template can be adapted for members to use the specifications required from the Net Zero Roadmap.
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