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Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It
From: The New Carbon Architecture
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This chapter draws upon the results of Life Cycle Assessment studies to summarize what we know about whole building embodied carbon, and to highlight best opportunities for innovation and reductions in building embodied emissions.
Contributors
Catherine De Wolf
Catherine De Wolf is a postdoctoral scientist working on low carbon structural design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. She obtained her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and worked at the University of Cambridge in the field of embodied carbon. She holds a Master of Science in Building Technology from MIT and a Bachelor and Master of Science in Civil Engineering and Architecture from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She has spoken about low carbon building materials at TEDx in Paris and when receiving the Innovators Under 35 Award in Belgium.
Barbara Rodriquez Droguett
Barbara Rodriguez Droguett has devoted over a decade to the creation and improvement of analytic tools to assess carbon in buildings. She was the first LEED AP woman in Chile and later the Chief Sustainability Officer at the Center for Innovation and Research of Buildings at Universidad de Chile, where she led the first EPD program for the building sector in Latin America. She was director of ECOBASE, the first nationwide LCI for building materials in Chile. In 2015 she received the National Award for Sustainable Construction Leaders under 35 from the Chilean Chamber of Construction. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Washington.
Kathrina Simonen
Kathrina Simonen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington with over 15 years of professional practice experience as an architect and structural engineer. Her research is focused on understanding and reducing the environmental impacts of manufacturing building materials and products through the use of environmental life cycle assessment (LCA). She is founding director of the Carbon Leadership Forum, an industry-academic collaboration focused on linking LCA to design and construction practice and has authored a handbook, Life Cycle Assessment, a primer for building industry professionals looking to learn about LCA.
