Embodied Carbon: An Explanation from an Architecture Undergraduate to the Public Eye

In the life of an architecture student, there comes a time where they slowly realise that their dream of becoming an architect is ever closer then before.
There is no other time that this feeling is truer than when an architecture student continues on their journey towards their postgraduate years when everything seems to be kicked up a notch. Design, Concepts, Ideologies, Processes, Projects, Presentations, Criteria are amongst the few of the myriad of elements our Postgraduate Architecture student has to improve on to attain the coveted postgraduate degree.

To begin the Postgraduate journey, our Architecture student performs a review of 'embodied carbon' in order to understand it from an architectural perspective and how this can affect an Architect, building costs as well as design. In tandem, our Architecture student feels the need to be able to explain it in more 'human' terms than 'archi-speak' otherwise how would this be explained to anyone outside of an architectural circle and how this may affect their building?

Therefore it was imperative for our Architecture student to be able to comprehend as well as give back to the public, what embodied carbon is and how they as a group and individuals can be affected by their choices, no matter how large or small.