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Future Infrastructure Growth Model

Building form, CSBE news, GHG budgeting, Optimization, Structural design, Urban form

Rising social and economic pressures to build more housing and infrastructure are in tension with the need to rapidly reduce GHG emissions from resource extraction and use. This paper presents the Future Infrastructure Growth (FIG) model: an open data, bottom-up,...

GHG Emissions in Canada’s Construction Sector

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This paper examines the tension between needing to build more infrastructure and housing and simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. This study uses an Environmentally Extended Input-Output...

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  • 2025 Embodied GHG Symposium
  • The Differences in how we build: Material use and intensity in small multi-units’ Buildings in Brazil, Canada, Greece, Nigeria and Switzerland
  • The climate limits of construction in over 1000 cities
  • Leveraging building permit data for large-scale embodied carbon and circularity assessment of residential building construction
  • 2025 Student Design Competition: Small housing for sustainability

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