YOU WALK ON IT and use it every day, but did you know that the concrete industry makes for 8% of global emissions - yet could soon be absorbing gigatons of carbon while making use of waste materials? Yes, it could!
The industry remains mired in the past, but we can all push to transform it into a climate-friendly force for the 21st century.
About Bruce King (www.bruce-king.com):
Bruce King is a registered structural engineer with 45 years of private consulting experience, and 35 years of leadership in the green building movement. He is the instigator and author of the Marin County low-carbon concrete code, and has served as a Green/Clean Tech advisor to numerous startups and other organizations.
He has worked on high-rise structures in San Francisco, aircraft remodeling in Miami, Tahitian resorts, Buddhist monasteries in the Colorado Rockies, passive solar designs all over the world, and hundreds of houses of every shape throughout North America. He has lectured and taught ecological building practices in international settings, in addition to keynoting and speaking at numerous international conferences.
He is co-founder and Director of Ecological Building Network (EBNet) a non-profit coalition of engineers, builders, and architects developing and disseminating best technologies for the built environment.
EBNet is the host of the BuildWell Project, a nonprofit multimedia company spreading the news about climate-friendly design and construction. www.buildwell.site
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Further Resources / Books:
Build Beyond Zero
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The New Carbon Architecture
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