Questions about the Embodied Carbon poster

What’s on the Embodied Carbon poster?

A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. Embodied carbon is the greenhouse gas released in extracting, making, transporting, building, maintaining and eventually removing a building, as opposed to operating it. Upfront carbon covers stages A1 to A5, to handover.; Structure and substructure are often about half.; As operating energy falls, embodied share rises.; Concrete and steel dominate most frames.; Reuse of an existing structure beats any new build.; Reported in kg CO2 equivalent per square metre.; Reported in — kgCO2e per m2; Biggest lever — build less; Refurbishing rather than demolishing typically avoids the largest single carbon cost…. Educational reference. Figures depend heavily on the assessment boundary and dataset; compare only like with like.

Who is the Embodied Carbon poster for?

Embodied Carbon belongs to the Architecture section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning environmental design can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Embodied Carbon poster?

Use it early. Structure and substructure are settled fast and hold most of the total. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Embodied Carbon belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Embodied Carbon?

Airtightness, Orientation and Shading Devices sit alongside Embodied Carbon in the Architecture section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AirtightnessOrientationShading Devices

Is the Embodied Carbon poster free to download and print?

Yes. Embodied Carbon downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Architecture section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Embodied Carbon poster print at?

Embodied Carbon is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Embodied Carbon loses nothing.Printing guide