With the built environment responsible for almost 40% of energy-related carbon emissions globally, we must find new ways to design and construct our cities.  

Reuse of materials is a key principle within a circular economy, ensuring material value is maintained for as long as possible. Use of reclaimed materials in construction has the potential to reduce the embodied carbon of construction, minimising the need for virgin material extraction and production as well as reducing volumes of waste generated and other negative externalities.

ResponsibleSteel™ is the steel industry’s first global multi-stakeholder standard and certification initiative. As a not-forprofit multi-stakeholder organisation, it has been founded to bring together business, civil society and downstream users of steel, to provide a global standard and certification initiative for steel. Standard development seeks to build consensus on what sustainability looks like for steel – including the impacts of mining, steel production, the scrap metal supply chain, greenhouse gas emissions, water use, workers’ rights, communities and biodiversity.

For seventy-five years, Architectural Graphic Standards has been the go-to reference for architects, builders, and engineers. Revised for the first time since 2000, Architectural Graphic Standards Student Edition is an entirely new, definitive reference work for everyone involved with lands.

Study into the key aspects of international best practices of green public procurement policies that can be adopted in the USA for successful design and implementation of the Federal Buy Clean initiative. The Buy Clean initiative calls for the prioritisation of American-made, lower-carbon construction materials in federal procurement and federally assisted projects in North America.