22/10/2026
When we talk about a building's carbon impact, energy use after completion is only part of the picture.
There's also embodied carbon: the emissions associated with the materials and construction of the building itself.
That makes structural material choice important from the earliest design stages.
Government's Timber in Construction Roadmap identifies increased timber use as one route to reducing whole-life carbon in the built environment, with sustainably sourced timber also storing carbon for the life of the product.
Here's why embodied carbon deserves more attention. 👉