The New Carbon Architecture

Author is a structural engineer who has designed sustainable building world-wide He founded the Ecological Building Network He has written three other books on low-carbon building The embodied carbon of building materials accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions The author believes the future of building will be an amalgam of the best of traditional and modern construction technologies This book explains how it is possible to build using materials which create a carbon sink, absorbing more carbon than they emit through construction materials and the building process The resulting buildings cost less to build and are more comfortable to live in Covers wood, alternatives to concrete, recycled plastic waste, and materials inspired by biomimicry