More than half of construction professionals don’t measure embodied carbon, says RICS

By Daniel Gayne2023-12-06T07:00:00

Despite growing enthusiasm for green building, carbon measurement not impacting on material choice

Nearly half of construction professionals globally are not taking embodied carbon measurements, according a new RICS survey.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) latest global sustainability report reported that 43% of respondents said they do not take such measurements and found that even where carbon is assessed, there is little evidence it is impacting on choice of materials.

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