Embodied Carbon for Sustainable Building Conservation

This timely volume provides the latest research, guidance, examples, and methods for understanding, calculating, leveraging, and reducing embodied carbon in building conservation. This will be an essential resource for all building conservation and heritage practitioners including building surveyors, architects, and conservators.

List of contents

1. Introduction. Part One: Approaches and Definitions. 2: Whole Life Cycle Analysis as an imperative for Sustainable Building Conservation. 3: Understanding the Micro-Credentials of Embodied Carbon from a Materials Science Perspective. 4: Restoration vs Redevelopment: Embodied Carbon in Conserving a 20th Century Heritage in India. 5: Carnegie libraries of Britain: Assets or liabilities? Managing altering agendas of energy efficiency for early 20th century heritage. 6: Characteristics of grassland burning in the Aso Cultural Landscape, Japan. 7: Case study: Rehabilitating the Nineteenth Century housing blocks of Alexandria. 8: Retrofit Case Studies: An historic university accommodation building and a traditional solid walled house in Ireland. 9: Embodied Carbon as pivot: The case of M&S. 10: Conclusion

About the author

Oriel Prizeman is Professor of Sustainable Building Conservation at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. Formerly a practicing architect, she founded an MSc at Cardiff (2013) and Centre (2021). She was a board member of the Association for Preservation Technology (USA) 2015-2017 and of Architects Accredited in Building Conservation (UK) since 2024.

Product details

• Authors: Oriel (Cardiff University Prizeman, Prizeman Oriel
• Assisted by: Prizeman Oriel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032864099
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3286409-9
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, ARCHITECTURE / Historic Preservation / General, ARCHITECTURE / Adaptive Reuse & Renovation, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Energy Efficiency, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Conservation of buildings & building materials, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design, Conservation of buildings and building materials