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Environmental Impact: Building Technology
This lecture explores the environmental impact of building technology, covering topics such as accelerated obsolescence, measurement of impacts throughout an object's life cycle, effects of construction on the environment, energy demand distribution, greenhouse gas emissions, waste generation, and the correlation between waste mass and wealth. The presentation delves into the origins of soil pollution, biodiversity loss, and the demand for resources, emphasizing the importance of material efficiency in clean energy transitions and the embodied CO2 of structural frames.
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