Embodied carbon in infrastructure – the missing link

It is well known that in the UK around 40% of carbon emissions are linked to the built environment. Concrete, the second most used material on the planet after water, is responsible for approximately 7.5% of total anthropogenic (human-caused) carbon dioxide emissions. As society mobilises to tackle the causes and impacts of climate change, addressing embodied carbon in construction has become crucial to decarbonising the real estate industry.