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Embodied Carbon Reduction Through Early Opportunity Mapping

by Sam | Nov 24, 2025

Carbon Opportunity Mapping reveals where carbon hides before design begins. Early choices shape most of a project’s emissions, and once the design reaches a fixed point, the chance for cutting carbon narrows sharply. This is why in today’s Knowledge Share, we...

Technical Information Paper: Embodied Carbon in Enterprise Data Centre IT Equipment

by Anthony Waterman | Mar 1, 2025

1. Introduction Enterprise data centres are a critical component of digital infrastructure, yet they carry a substantial embodied carbon footprint. This paper evaluates the embodied carbon of IT equipment in data centres, focusing on Lifecycle Stages A1–A5 (raw...

The Judgement Beneath the Numbers: In Conversation With Harish Borah, Expert in Life Cycle Thinking (Cost & Carbon), ADW Developments

by Marina Young | Sep 1, 2026

We continue our series of interviews with the ADW team, which we opened with our Director, Anthony Waterman. This time, we sit down with Harish Borah. Construction can calculate some things. Others, it must judge. Harish has spent over a decade working where the two...

Lifecycle Costing & Carbon: Aligning Financial and Environmental Performance

by Sam | Mar 26, 2026

The transition to net zero is fundamentally reshaping how we evaluate buildings. We no longer judge performance solely at completion; we assess it across decades of operation. Yet financial and carbon decisions are still too often made in isolation, when in reality,...

World Water Day: The Missing Link in Whole Life Carbon and BREEAM Performance

by Marina Young | Mar 19, 2026

As the built environment accelerates its transition to net zero, operational energy, embodied carbon, and whole life carbon assessments have rightly become central to strategic decision-making. However, one critical performance metric...