1st Edition
Embodied Carbon for Sustainable Building Conservation
Chapter 1: Introduction
Oriel Prizeman
Chapter 2: Whole Life Cycle Analysis as an imperative for Sustainable Building Conservation
Peter Cox
Chapter 3: Understanding the Micro-Credentials of Embodied Carbon from a Materials Science Perspective
Deepankar Kumar Ashish & Riccardo Maddalena
Chapter 4: Restoration vs Redevelopment: Embodied Carbon in Conserving a 20th Century Heritage in India.
Jigna Desai & Rajan Rawal
Chapter 5: Carnegie libraries of Britain: Assets or liabilities? Managing altering agendas of energy efficiency for early 20th century heritage
Oriel Prizeman, Mahdi Boughanmi & Camilla Pezzica
Chapter 6: Characteristics of grassland burning in the Aso Cultural Landscape, Japan
Yoshitaka Takahashi & Mihoko Muto
Chapter 7: Case study: Rehabilitating the Nineteenth Century housing blocks of Alexandria
Ahmed K. Taher
Chapter 8: Retrofit Case Studies: An historic university accommodation building and a traditional solid walled house in Ireland.
Peter Cox
Chapter 9: Embodied Carbon as pivot: The case of M&S
Henrietta Billings
Chapter 10: Conclusion
Oriel Prizeman
Biography
Oriel Prizeman is Professor of Sustainable Building Conservation at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. Formerly a practicing architect, she founded an MSc at Cardiff (2013) and Centre (2021). She was a board member of the Association for Preservation Technology (USA) 2015–2017 and of Architects Accredited in Building Conservation (UK) since 2024.
