When you cross a steel bridge or enter an office building, you rarely think of the skeleton that supports it. But that scaffolding has a huge hidden cost: the production of construction materials accounts for between 7% and 9% of global carbon emissions. We talk about about 3.7 gigatonnes per year spitting into the atmosphere. The problem is not only that we build a lot, but that we design structures with tremendous overweight for pure comfort a…
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When you cross a steel bridge or enter an office building, you rarely think of the skeleton that supports it. But that scaffolding has a huge hidden cost: the production of construction materials accounts for between 7% and 9% of global carbon emissions. We talk about about 3.7 gigatonnes per year spitting into the atmosphere. The problem is not only that we build a lot, but that we design structures with tremendous overweight for pure comfort a…