How to pursue the Whole Life Carbon vision: a method to assess buildings’ Embodied Carbon.

Il volume raccoglie gli atti della 2a ed. del convegno "BEYOND ALL LIMITS. International Conference on Sustainability in Architecture, Planning, and Design", tenutosi nei giorni 11 e 12 maggio 2022, presso il Complesso del Belvedere di San Leucio, sede di OFFICINA VANVITELLI. Il convegno è stato promosso e organizzato dal Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale dell'Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", in partnership con la Faculty of Architecture della Çankaya University di Ankara e la Faculty of Engineering della University of Strathclyde di Glasgow. L'obiettivo principale di questo convegno scientifico e multidisciplinare, che ha interessato i campi dell'architettura, della pianificazione e del design, è stato quello di affrontare il tema della sostenibilità all’interno dell'attuale dibattito internazionale scaturito dal New European Bauhaus (NEB). The design and construction of CO2-neutral buildings by 2050 will be possible through many actions and strategies, including new metrics and indicators that would contribute to the accounting process for greenhouse gas emissions over the building’s life cycle. Among the range of helpful indicators is Embodied Carbon (EC). Standards and references describe EC characteristics and possible uses both in the design stage and in other building life cycle stages; at the same time, they point out a need for building CO2-equivalent emissions calculation methods. The paper deals with research titled “decarbonisation tools” to provide common definitions and develop an EC accounting method. The main phases of the investigation work are reported. Further, the paper describes some future developments and outlooks for making EC an indicator understandable to several stakeholders of the construction sector as well as user-friendly from the early stage of the design process.