Fairs, Marcus. "BREEAM and LEED Green Certification Schemes Are ‘Meaningless’ Says Andrew Waugh". Dezeen. (1627430400)July 28, 2021. https://www.dezeen.com/...
Environmental certification schemes such as BREEAM and LEED focus largely on operational emissions rather than CO₂ from the construction supply chain. However, embodied carbon emissions comprise around half of all emissions from buildings. The certification systems focus chiefly on operational carbon. Where 3% of the points are based on life cycle analysis (LCA) for the BREEAM green building certificate, only 3 out of a total of 110 available points (2.7%) are directly accredited to embodied emissions in the LEED framework. Ignoring embodied carbon encourages architects to add unnecessary systems and devices to achieve high ratings and to prop up the existing "misguided" systems.
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