Energy-efficiency-in-buildings project shares knowledge to support carbon challenge
'To win the race against global warming' is the vision of Carbon Challenge, a campaign that unites the ambitious goals of competing in the world's leading sailing events - the Volvo Ocean Race and the America's Cup - with the objective of becoming a catalyst and facilitator for a drastic reduction in carbon emissions. The WBCSD's Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project will share its experience and knowledge in support of the development of Carbon Challenge Boathouse. Carbon Challenge recognizes that 'the biggest negative drag on most companies' carbon footprint is caused by the construction and operation of their business premises,' and as such is building the Carbon Challenge Boathouse. The building, a best practice model in construction and refurbishment for any company with carbon-reduction aspirations, will contain ideas that can be applied to existing buildings and incorporated into new building projects to make an immediate impact on energy consumption and carbon emissions. 'Buildings are one of the five megatrends identified by the WBCSD that need transformation to stabilize CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. And transforming behavior by educating and motivating professionals involved in building transactions is essential to alter their course toward improved energy efficiency in buildings,' says Christian Kornevall, EEB project director. 'Sharing our expertise will help Carbon Challenge build a boathouse with maximum carbon reduction and energy efficiency in mind, while maintaining the vision of state-of-the-art design.' Every detail of the Boathouse is being developed with maximum carbon reduction and energy efficiency in mind, while maintaining the vision of state-of-the-art design. The EEB project's global survey, Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Business Realities and Opportunities found that key players in real estate and construction overestimated the additional cost of building green by an average of 300%. While a high level of awareness of the issue of sustainable buildings exists, the survey identified the lack of information about a building's energy use and costs, the lack of leadership from professionals and business people in the industry, and the lack of know-how and experience as too few professional have been involved in sustainable building work as the three key barriers to implementation. The foundation stones of the Boathouse will be modular components, a requirement necessary to take the Boathouse around the world alongside the Carbon Challenge sailing team during the Race. It will serve as a mobile hospitality center and will become the permanent location of the Carbon Challenge Academy at its final destination. The Academy will use it, among other things, to train senior management in how to accumulate expertise in resource management and CO2 reduction, as well as methods in motivating management teams to generate and implement ideas. The project group to conceptualize, plan, build and operate the Boathouse is led by Carbon Challenge's Boathouse Project Manager, architect Bill Bouldin. The project group's members include David Chipperfield Architects, ARUP engineers and the Design Faculty of the University of Applied Science and Arts in Dortmund/Germany, headed by Prof. Martin Middlehauve.
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