"[5] Zero-carbon architecture (similar to zero-energy building), incorporates design techniques that maximize embodied carbon.
[6] Steve Webb, co-founder of Webb Yates Engineers, says: "We’ve known for a long time that aluminium, steel, concrete and ceramics have very high embodied energy ... High carbon frames should be taxed like cigarettes.
The BER is a United Kingdom government accepted unit of measurement that comes from an approved calculation process called sBEM (Simplified Building Emission Model) The purpose of Carbon Profiling[1] is to provide a method of analyzing and comparing both operational and embodied carbon emissions at the same time.
With this information it is then possible to allocate a project's resources in such a way to minimize the total amount of Carbon Dioxide emitted into the atmosphere through the use of a given piece of space.
This allows investors and occupiers to identify which building are good and bad carbon investments.