To understand the full carbon impacts of building operations and construction, KieranTimberlake uses Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to evaluate the embodied environmental impacts of building materials and assemblies.
OpenHome is a system for constructing customizable prefab homes created in collaboration with Bensonwood, a builder of timber-frame houses and high-performance architectural components. The system is designed to meet the requirements of the Passive House Standard, making it energy-efficient (and therefore low operational carbon) with superior air quality and acoustics.
Without the purchase of carbon offsets, the final embodied carbon intensity of the buildings is 84 kg CO2/m2, a remarkable improvement over the Carbon Leadership Forum’s 2017 baseline for single-family residential buildings of 315 kg CO2/m2, based on 23 models.