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Our team recently attended the March 12 regional forum sponsored by 3C-REN focused on Achieving Resilience in Wildfire Areas Through Energy Codes. Speakers addressed a range of topics including a history of fighting California wildfires and the increasing trend toward battery and solar solutions for when a home’s grid connection is severed or paused.
When comparing a high-performance building to a code-minimum building, a surprising truth emerges: their embodied carbon footprints are almost the same. If we were to think about how materials are extracted, manufactured, transported, and assembled, the carbon emissions related to those processes remain a common thread in buildings regardless of energy performance.
