06-08-2014, 12:37 PM
(04-08-2014, 07:11 PM)Niall Wrote: Replace concrete with wood. Its strong, carbon neutral, renewable and wooden buildings look so much nicer than concrete.
Hence my 4th year dissertation , designed a 9 story residential building made entirely of timber (cross laminated panels if we're going to be picky) . Just by growing the timber required to build it removed 740 tonnes of co2 from the atmosphere rather than the 84kg produced by concrete per tonne used