The climate crisis: Why it matters for the built environment

Sayce, Sarah; Wilkinson, Sara; Organ, Samantha

Abstract

Buildings have a major influence on the climate through carbon emissions at all stages of their life cycle – construction, operation and deconstruction. The solution calls for the urgent need for more sustainable retrofits to mitigate these impacts and to contribute to reducing impact through lessening waste, reducing building-related water and energy consumption, and adopting a circular economy approach. Despite knowing that action will mitigate climate change, we have collectively chosen at best very limited action. This is not sufficient. Why? The challenge of climate change demands an overarching need for extensive change. What? The knowledge to retrofit already exists but needs a holistic overview. We set out what resilient building retrofits mean for cities, precincts and at the scale of a single building, the issues faced and the changes that can be delivered in retrofit projects.
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Citation

Sayce, S., Wilkinson, S., & Organ, S. (2022). The climate crisis: Why it matters for the built environment. In S. Sayce, S. Wilkinson, G. Armstrong, & S. Organ (Eds.), Resilient Building Retrofits (3-20). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003023975-2

• Acceptance Date: Jun 13, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Sep 20, 2022
• Publication Date: Sep 20, 2022
• Deposit Date: Sep 18, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 21, 2024
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Pages: 3-20
• Book Title: Resilient Building Retrofits
• Chapter Number: 1
• ISBN: 9781003023975
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003023975-2
• Keywords: climate crisis, climate change, climate
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9948776
• Publisher URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003023975-2/climate-crisis-sarah-sayce-sara-wilkinson-samantha-organ
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