{"id":63190,"date":"2022-06-14T15:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T13:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/?p=63190"},"modified":"2022-06-14T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:45:12","slug":"the-indelible-mark-on-the-planet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/blog\/the-indelible-mark-on-the-planet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The indelible mark on the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By doing any activity we are leaving a footprint on the planet, which is called <strong>the Carbon Footprint<\/strong>. This parameter quantifies the totality of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) that are emitted into the atmosphere of <strong>direct or indirect way<\/strong> caused by humans when manufacturing a product or carrying out any daily activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE SO-CALLED GHG AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR OUR PLANET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <strong>cause of 38%<\/strong> of global CO2 emissions according to the United Nations Environment Program or UNEP, remembering that one of the objectives on the European Union&#039;s list is zero net carbon emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-6.png\" alt=\"Image\" class=\"wp-image-63201\" width=\"656\" height=\"291\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-6.png 875w, https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-6-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-6-768x341.png 768w, https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-6-123x55.png 123w, https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-6-200x89.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><figcaption>Classification of Greenhouse Gases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>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 <strong>Ministry for the Ecological Transition<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the curious facts is that in the CYPE software and in the Price Generator (online), when the budgets are generated in the <strong>games<\/strong> can be seen at <strong>end of the game<\/strong> the <strong>amount of CO2<\/strong> that will produce that activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another curiosity is that any user can <strong>measure carbon footprint<\/strong> of your daily activity through the following link: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-amarillo-eip-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huelladeciudades.com\/AppHCCali\/main.html#calcu\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/huelladeciudades.com\/AppHCCali\/main.html#calcu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEASURE THE CARBON FOOTPRINT YOU CAUSE HERE<\/a><\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HEADING TO ZERO CONSUMPTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Union establishes that buildings, both new construction and rehabilitated ones, must have a <strong>zero energy consumption<\/strong> <strong>or almost zero<\/strong> from its construction process to its demolition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Technical Construction Code is increasingly <strong>restrictive<\/strong> in this sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/programs\/master-bim-installations\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/programas\/master-bim-instalaciones\/\">new technologies in construction<\/a> There are methods that increasingly isolate the <strong>thermal envelope<\/strong> of the building, which are defined as <strong>passive systems<\/strong> and, in turn, we have<strong> more efficient equipment<\/strong> As far as the facilities are concerned, which would be the <strong>active measures<\/strong>. Both measures are aimed at the preparation of buildings of <a href=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/programs\/master-bim-installations\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/programas\/master-bim-instalaciones\/\">energy consumption<\/a> almost zero, calls arising <strong>passive houses<\/strong>, a concept originated in Germany that combines comfort with low energy consumption and affordable prices.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-7.png\" alt=\"Image\" class=\"wp-image-63203\" width=\"430\" height=\"402\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-7.png 499w, https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-7-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-7-176x165.png 176w, https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-7-123x115.png 123w, https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-7-200x187.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><figcaption>Passivhaus or Passive House concept as a low energy consumption building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in learning more about the concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/engineers-blog\/passive-house-fundamentals\/\"><strong>Passive House<\/strong><\/a> We recommend that you read the article related to this topic in our building blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Help promote change and become an expert in energy efficiency, designing and making decisions about active measures in our buildings using the modeling software most used by professionals in the sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue learning about these concepts and techniques in the <a href=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/programs\/master-bim-installations\/%29\/\"><strong>Master in BIM and Efficient Energy Management<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alarm clock rings, we start a new day, we prepare to carry out our daily activities such as: going to work, preparing our toast, taking the bus,... <a title=\"The indelible mark on the planet\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/blog\/the-indelible-mark-on-the-planet-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The indelible mark on the planet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2412,"featured_media":63204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-blog-energias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}