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Building Products May Get ‘Global Warming Numbers’
Architecture 2030 calls for all products to be labeled with a 'global warming number' that lists its greenhouse gas emissions from raw resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, construction and usage to the end of its life.
Just as easy as a consumer knows how many calories are in a 12 oz. can of Miller Lite (70), an architectural movement is calling for labels on every construction product that identify its "global warming number."
Architecture 2030, a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization established in 2002 in response to the climate change, is challenging the architecture, design and building communities to design structures that cut fossil fuel usage to zero by 2030.
As part of the challenge, group wants all products to cut their carbon footprint by 50 percent, covering the greenhouse gas emissions of a product from the raw resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, construction, usage, and end-of-life stage.
For structures as a whole, the challenge asks that all new buildings immediately be designed and built with an energy consumption level that is 60 percent below the nation's average, with a gradual scale leading to carbon neutral by 2030.
Speaking at a recent building conference in Canada, Architecture 2030 director Francesca Desmarais is now calling for a label that will be placed on all building products that provides a "global warming number" for that product, much like a nutrition label on a food or beverage. She says the American Institute of Architects (AIA) is already "on board," according to an article in the Canadian Journal of Commerce.
If this comes to pass for building products, will CE products be far behind?
Architecture 2030, a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization established in 2002 in response to the climate change, is challenging the architecture, design and building communities to design structures that cut fossil fuel usage to zero by 2030.
As part of the challenge, group wants all products to cut their carbon footprint by 50 percent, covering the greenhouse gas emissions of a product from the raw resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, construction, usage, and end-of-life stage.
For structures as a whole, the challenge asks that all new buildings immediately be designed and built with an energy consumption level that is 60 percent below the nation's average, with a gradual scale leading to carbon neutral by 2030.
Speaking at a recent building conference in Canada, Architecture 2030 director Francesca Desmarais is now calling for a label that will be placed on all building products that provides a "global warming number" for that product, much like a nutrition label on a food or beverage. She says the American Institute of Architects (AIA) is already "on board," according to an article in the Canadian Journal of Commerce.
If this comes to pass for building products, will CE products be far behind?
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Jason has covered low-voltage electronics as an editor since 1990. He joined EH Publishing in 2000, and before that served as publisher and editor of Security Sales, a leading magazine for the security industry. He served as chairman of the Security Industry Association’s Education Committee from 2000-2004 and sat on the board of that association from 1998-2002. He is also a former board member of the Alarm Industry Research and Educational Foundation. He is currently a member of the CEDIA Education Action Team for Electronic Systems Business. Jason graduated from the University of Southern California.
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