Analyzing Embodied Carbon Around UCSD's Campus

Scope 3 Emissions

Project Keywords: Construction, Materials, Embodied Carbon

Driving Questions

How does the active construction on campus affect how much energy is being utilized on the UCSD campus?
What are the carbon emissions caused by the production of materials used to make buildings?

Meet the Team

Ben Kim

Catherine Tang

Jacob Cardenas

Bella Wan

Darren Ng

Project Deliverables

Project Roadmap

Project Process

Project Poster

Poster

Additional Project Materials

Research Paper

Paper containing in depth information from our research and people that we contacted. We discuss the differences between operational energy, embodied energy, and embodied carbon, before discussing our project process and research outcomes.

Draft Research Paper

Future Directions & Remaining Questions

Remaining Questions

How can we make people more aware of embodied carbon?
How well does UCSD take embodied carbon into account compared to other Universities?
How can UCSD improve its embodied carbon emissions?

Future Directions

Follow through with our original project of comparing buildings across campus by their embodied carbon.
Increase awareness of the idea of embodied carbon.
Research further into methods and materials that can help reduce embodied carbon.

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