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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...

Latest Research

  • Influence of functional unit selection on environmental impact assessment of structural systems made of reinforced concrete, mass timber, and structural steel
  • Embodied GHG Emissions in Buildings: Where Regulations Stand, What Science Demands, and the Gap Between Them
  • Decreasing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions in One-Way Slabs Through Concrete Strength Reduction and Thickness Optimization
  • Third time’s a charm for Embodied GHG Symposium at U of T
  • Between Public Space and Private Living: Social Infrastructure Types as Enablers of Compact Housing    

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