Buildings as a global carbon sink

2020/01/27 by Galina Churkina, Alan Organschi, Christopher Reyer +7 · 1 voice · 15 citations
Engineering · Environmental Science · #Environmental Impact and Sustainability #Hygrothermal properties of building materials #Wind and Air Flow Studies

paper · doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0462-4

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Discussions

• The material your "passive house" is made of is crucial! "Mineral-based materials have substantial embodied carbon emissions with minimal carbon storage capacities" Churkina, G. et al. Buildings as a [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]