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Carbon Value Engineering: Integrating Carbon and Cost Reduction Strategies in Building Design Project Partners: ∞ University of New South Wales (UNSW) Contact: Dr. Philip Oldfield Senior Lecturer, UNSW Built Environment Background This research project looks at how we can reduce embodied carbon emissions within the Australian built environment by adapting an established industry practice – Value Engineering (VE). Value engineering is where Project Description Australia has set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets of 25% by 2020 and 80% by 2050, as compared to 2000 levels. Research suggests that in the built environment such ambitious targets cannot be met by improving the operational performance of buildings alone. In fact, reductions in the order of 80% can only be met by also substantially reducing the use of materials with carbon-intensive supply chains. This means not only reducing the carbon related to the operation of our buildings, but also the carbon emissions from the extraction, transportation and refinement of raw materials, the manufacturing of building components and the construction, renovation and maintenance of the building. This is known as ‘embodied carbon’. cost reduction and constructability are optimised prior to building construction. It is a mandatory practice for all NSW government projects with a value exceeding AUD $5million, and commonplace in most building developments. The project explores to what extent VE can reduce embodied carbon, what practices of VE can reduce embodied carbon the most and what is the impact of VE on lifecycle carbon, including both embodied and operational emissions? However, the research will go further by creating a framework for a new type of Value Engineering that focusses not only on cost reduction and constructability, but also the optimisation and reduction of embodied carbon early in the design process. The aim is to shift the industry standard Value Engineering to become Carbon Value Engineering, with a new metric that integrates both cost ($) and embodied carbon (kgCO2eq). The aim is to provide the basis for both to be optimised simultaneously early in the design process, integrating cost and carbon reductions across the Australian built environment. ∞ Multiplex Email: p.oldfi[email protected] Tel: + 61 (2) 9385 6821

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Page 1: Carbon Value Engineering - SBE 2016 · PDF fileCarbon Value Engineering: Integrating Carbon and Cost Reduction Strategies in Building Design Project Partners: ∞ University of New

Carbon Value Engineering: Integrating Carbon and Cost Reduction Strategies in Building Design

Project Partners:

∞ University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Contact: Dr. Philip Oldfield

Senior Lecturer, UNSW Built Environment

Background

This research project looks at how we can reduce embodied carbon emissions within the Australian built environment by adapting an established industry practice – Value Engineering (VE). Value engineering is where

Project Description

Australia has set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets of 25% by 2020 and 80% by 2050, as compared to 2000 levels. Research suggests that in the built environment such ambitious targets cannot be met by improving the operational performance of buildings alone. In fact, reductions in the order of 80% can only be met by also substantially reducing the use of materials with carbon-intensive supply chains. This means not only reducing the carbon related to the operation of our buildings, but also the carbon emissions from the extraction, transportation and refinement of raw materials, the manufacturing of building components and the construction, renovation and maintenance of the building. This is known as ‘embodied carbon’.

cost reduction and constructability are optimised prior to building construction. It is a mandatory practice for all NSW government projects with a value exceeding AUD $5million, and commonplace in most building developments. The project explores to what extent VE can reduce embodied carbon, what practices of VE can reduce embodied carbon the most and what is the impact of VE on lifecycle carbon, including both embodied and operational emissions?

However, the research will go further by creating a framework for a new type of Value Engineering that focusses not only on cost reduction and constructability, but also the optimisation and reduction of embodied carbon early in the design process. The aim is to shift the industry standard Value Engineering to become Carbon Value Engineering, with a new metric that integrates both cost ($) and embodied carbon (kgCO2eq). The aim is to provide the basis for both to be optimised simultaneously early in the design process, integrating cost and carbon reductions across the Australian built environment.

∞ Multiplex

Email: [email protected]

Tel: + 61 (2) 9385 6821