#embodied-carbon

#embodied-carbon

As rising emissions targets collide with shrinking material supplies and the growing urgency of climate commitments, the built environment is being forced into a deeper reckoning with how it consumes, circulates, and discards resources. What was once considered waste is now revealing itself as a dormant architectural archive, an urban ecosystem of materials waiting to be reclaimed, revalued, or reimagined.

Network Rail Property and ACME The proposed redevelopment of Liverpool Street station is "a huge and unnecessary waste of resources" and is "likely to be redundant on completion", conservationists have said. Network Rail's plans to partially demolish Britain's busiest station and build a multi-storey tower cantilevered above a neighbouring Grade II* listed former hotel were criticised in a report commissioned by Liverpool Street Station Campaign (LISSCA).