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SUMMARY:Maximising the potential of the existing building stock - Danielle
  Densley Tingley\, University of Sheffield\, UK
DTSTART:20210521T140000Z
DTEND:20210521T150000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Maria Marques de Carvalho
DESCRIPTION:Delivering real zero by 2050 is a significant challenge for th
 e built environment. There are two main areas that need to be decarbonised
 : 1) operations emissions\, and 2) embodied emissions. The operational emi
 ssions challenge in the UK is largely rooted in the scale of the retrofit 
 challenge. The energy efficiency of the existing stock needs to be drastic
 ally improved\, and heating systems moved away from gas. The embodied emis
 sions challenge is a different one\, here the emissions largely arise from
  new construction\, which is still heavily reliant on energy intensive mat
 erials that are difficult to decarbonise. But in an industrialised nation\
 , such as the UK\, to what extent should we be building new structures? Ca
 n we make better use of the existing building stock to meet our current ne
 eds? To do this we need to understand much more about the existing stock. 
 How can it be adapted\, and repurposed? What is the stock of resources ava
 ilable that can be reused? This talk will explore these ideas and detail t
 he research underway in the EPSRC funded project ‘multi-scale\, circular
  economic potential of the non-residential building stock’.\n
LOCATION:Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link)
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