The New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Climate - Softcover

King, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865718687 ISBN 13: 9780865718685

Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate

"Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when materials are mined, manufactured, and transported — comprising some 10% of global emissions. With the built environment doubling by 2030, buildings are a carbon juggernaut threatening to overwhelm the climate.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Like never before in history, buildings can become part of the climate solution. With biomimicry and innovation, we can pull huge amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it up as walls, roofs, foundations, and insulation. We can literally make buildings out of the sky with a massive positive impact.

The New Carbon Architecture is a paradigm-shifting tour of the innovations in architecture and construction that are making this happen. Office towers built from advanced wood products; affordable, low-carbon concrete alternatives; plastic cleaned from the oceans and turned into building blocks. We can even grow insulation from mycelium.

A tour de force by the leaders in the field, The New Carbon Architecture will fire the imagination of architects, engineers, builders, policy makers, and everyone else captivated by the possibility of architecture to heal the climate and produce safer, healthier, and more beautiful buildings.

About this title

About the Author

Bruce King has been a structural engineer for 35 years, designing buildings of every size around the world. He's the Founder/Director of the Ecological Building Network and the BuildWell conferences on green building materials. Bruce's decades of research into alternative building systems has led to building code changes in California and globally.

From the Back Cover

SOAK UP CARBON INTO BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY BUILDINGS THAT HEAL THE CLIMATE

We must go beyond building operations and address embodied carbon ― phasing out carbon emissions in building materials and construction by mid-century; this book illustrates how. ― EDWARD MAZRIA, Founder / CEO Architecture 2030

I recommend this book as a primer for anyone interested in combatting global climate change via building science. ― JERRY YUDELSON, PE, LEED Fellow, “The Godfather of Green” ― Wired Magazine and author, Reinventing Green Building

That same carbon atom that’s wreaking havoc in the atmosphere is a building block for many great traditional and new building materials. The New Carbon Architecture shows us how in ways that are both practical and imaginative ― truly a resource for our times. ― NADAV MALIN, President, BuildingGreen, Inc.

LIKE NEVER BEFORE in history, buildings can become part of the climate solution. With biomimicry and innovation, we can pull huge amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it up as walls, roofs, foundations, and insulation. We can literally make buildings out of sky with a massive positive impact.

The New Carbon Architecture is a paradigm-shifting tour of the innovations in architecture and construction that are making this happen. Office towers built from advanced wood products; affordable, low-carbon concrete alternatives; plastic cleaned from the oceans and turned into building blocks. We can even grow insulation and bricks!

A tour de force from the leaders in the field, The New Carbon Architecture will fire the imagination of architects, engineers, builders, policy makers, and everyone else captivated by the possibility of architecture that heals the climate and produces safer, healthier, and more beautiful buildings.

BRUCE KING , a structural engineer for 35 years, is Founder and Director of the Ecological Building Network (EBNet) and author of Buildings of Earth and Straw, Making Better Concrete, and Design of Straw Bale Buildings . He lives in San Rafael, California.

With contributing authors in order of appearance:

ERIN MCDADE * ANN EDMINSTER * CATHERINE DE WOLF * KATHRINA SIMONEN *
BARBARA RODRIGUEZ DROGUETT * LARRY STRAIN * FRANCES YANG * ANDREW LAWRENCE * JASON GRANT * CHRIS MAGWOOD * MASSEY BURKE * CRAIG WHITE * FERNANDO MARTIRENA * PAUL JAQUIN * MIKHAIL DAVIS * WES SULLENS * WIL SRUBAR III *PETE WALKER * ANDREW THOMSON * DANIEL MASKELL

Edition details

• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865718687
• ISBN 13: 9780865718685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176