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The aim is to reduce energy consumption and foster the use of clean energy
The Biden-Harris Administration seeks to create a standardized, verifiable basis for defining a zero emissions building. “A broadly accepted common minimum definition for a zero emissions building, as well as a pathway for verification, is foundational to efforts by public and private entities to transition the building sector to zero emissions,“ as said on a webpage of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), “The definition may serve as a framework that users can achieve through multiple pathways to influence the design and operation of buildings to substantially reduce building sector emissions.“
Studies show that more than 40 % of climate gas stems from the building sector, in large parts from cement used for concrete.
DOE has developed part 1 of a draft definition for zero emissions buildings, applicable to existing buildings and new construction of non-federally owned buildings.
In the European Union, the discussion is already one step further: there, the focus is now also on production of building materials, so on the reduction of the so-called „grey“ energy in an edifice.
Building load-bearing walls of massive stone is one idea as stone is available from nature and needs only to be cut from the rocks and processed.
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(27.02.2024, USA: 02.27.2024)