The alarm clock rings, we start a new day, we get ready to carry out our daily activities such as: going to work, making our toast, taking the bus, working or simply turning on and watching television.
By doing any activity we are leaving a footprint on the planet, which is called the Carbon Footprint. This parameter quantifies the totality of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) that are emitted into the atmosphere of direct or indirect way caused by humans when manufacturing a product or carrying out any daily activity.
THE SO-CALLED GHG AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR OUR PLANET
The mass of these gases caused by any activity has its equivalent in CO2 to quantify the entire measure of pollution that will have an impact on the so-called greenhouse effect, construction being one of the most polluting activities in all its phases. In fact, it is estimated that it is the cause of 38% of global CO2 emissions according to the United Nations Environment Program or UNEP, remembering that one of the objectives on the European Union's list is zero net carbon emissions by 2050.
The good news is that there are pioneering construction companies committed to the paradigm shift. Specifically, we are talking about 87 companies that measured their carbon footprint and that were awarded the official seal of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition after completing the registration of your carbon footprint calculation in the corresponding registry. As compensation for this registration, the administration establishes new sustainable criteria in public contracts, giving these companies extra points for public tenders. Companies such as LEVANTINA, DOALCO, ESCLAPES E HIJOS, MEDITERRANEO DE OBRAS Y ASFALTOS are the green standard bearers of this project.
One of the curious facts is that in the CYPE software and in the Price Generator (online), when the budgets are generated in the games can be seen at end of the game the amount of CO2 that will produce that activity.
Another curiosity is that any user can measure carbon footprint of your daily activity through the following link:
MEASURE THE CARBON FOOTPRINT YOU CAUSE HERE
HEADING TO ZERO CONSUMPTION
The European Union establishes that buildings, both new construction and rehabilitated ones, must have a zero energy consumption or almost zero from its construction process to its demolition.
The Technical Construction Code is increasingly restrictive in this sense.
Today, thanks to the new technologies in construction There are methods that increasingly isolate the thermal envelope of the building, which are defined as passive systems and, in turn, we have more efficient equipment As far as the facilities are concerned, which would be the active measures. Both measures are aimed at the preparation of buildings of energy consumption almost zero, calls arising passive houses, a concept originated in Germany that combines comfort with low energy consumption and affordable prices.
If you are interested in learning more about the concept of Passive House We recommend that you read the article related to this topic in our building blog.
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