Whole Life Carbon Film for Clients – it’s in the can!
Mark Wray is seen here being filmed at the exemplar Okehampton Business Park development. Mark was explaining a retrospective study that has been carried out by SWRDA on the whole life carbon performance of three recently completed buildings and SWRDA guidance for clients called 'Carbon Compass'. Three days intensive filming in Devon and Bristol has produced a great DVD (our second for clients!), with experts travelling from all over the UK to be filmed.
Whole life Carbon Assessment considers the carbon related emissions from the building over its entire life. This means that three phases of a building's life have been scoped. These are:
Initial Impacts
These are the emissions that occur before the building is put into operation and include the carbon embodied in the construction materials, as well as, the carbon emitted during the construction process.
Operational Impacts
These are the emissions that occur once the building is complete and operating and is essentially made up of operating emissions (day-to-day emissions from operating heating, ventilation, lighting and ancillary equipment) and maintenance emissions (embodied carbon of materials that need to be replaced during a building’s operating life)
End-of-life Impacts
These are the carbon emissions that occur at the end of a buildings useful life and are made up of deconstruction site related emissions and the emissions that result from construction materials being disposed into landfill.
Details of film purchase, those SWRDA studies, the SWRDA Carbon Compass Guide, and other relevant industry links are listed for you as "Key Information for Whole Life Carbon Assessment" – on our client films pages at http://www.buildsw.org.uk/clientsdvds
