Climate and Construction: The case for recladding buildings to reduce carbons

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Today’s new high-performance commercial and institutional buildings can access construction technology delivering vastly superior levels of energy efficiency versus buildings built in past decades.

A persuasive business and environmental case for retrofitting and repurposing existing buildings has developed alongside the awareness of the high levels of embodied carbon associated with new construction. Operational carbon savings over a building’s lifespan add up as well. When viewed in combination with the reduced embodied carbon benefits of retrofitting, the importance of these savings becomes clear.

Façades are a good place to start. They are the building’s outer skin and are fundamental to overall carbon reduction efforts since all operational functions occur inside that skin., Lucidarme explained how investments in the latest façade technologies, if made today, can lower emissions, reduce maintenance, and improve net present value and ROI over a building’s lifespan.

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