Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in Construction
Kapitel i bok, 2025
The construction sector is pivotal in addressing climate change, with deep decarbonization requiring urgent action across the value chain. This article explores pathways to decarbonizing the built environment through innovative design, material efficiency, and circularity measures. It highlights the importance of sufficiency principles, prioritizing renovation and adaptive reuse over new construction, and employing hybrid systems to reduce embodied carbon emissions. Collaborative approaches and digital tools enable resource-efficient planning and emissions tracking, while cascading use of bio-based materials and electrification of processes further support emissions reductions. Key enablers include circular resource flows based on innovative business models along with policy-driven emissions caps. By integrating sufficiency measures with supply and demand-side strategies, the construction sector can align with climate goals to halve emissions before 2030 with near-zero targets achievable before 2050.
Built environment
circular economy
Net-Zero
Mitigation
Resource efficiency
Decarbonization
Collaboration
Sustainability Transitions
Supply Chain
Construction industry
Buildings
Pathways
Emissions
Design
Transition
climate change
Författare
Ida Karlsson
Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Energiteknik
Confronting the Environmental Crisis: New Approaches in Architecture
44-59
9783986121884 (ISBN)
MISTRA Carbon Exit FAS 2
Stiftelsen för miljöstrategisk forskning (Mistra) (MISTRACarbonExitPhase2), 2021-07-01 -- 2025-03-31.
Drivkrafter
Hållbar utveckling
Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)
Byggprocess och förvaltning
Energisystem