Zero Carbon Building -

Performance Standard™ certification means taking responsibility for all carbon emissions associated with building operations, and eliminating climate impacts. Using utility and other data sources, this certification evaluates building performance annually:

ZCB-Performance™ evaluates carbon emissions from normal building operations such as heating and cooling. It also accounts for potential refrigerant leaks and the embodied carbon of new structural and envelope materials. The Standard recognizes the value of renewable energy and high-quality carbon offsets while encouraging strategies that account for the ever-increasing demand on electrical grids.

The Government of Canada launched the Net-Zero Challenge to encourage businesses operating in Canada to develop and implement credible and effective plans to transition their facilities and operations to net-zero emissions by 2050.

We focus on zero carbon energy (Ocean energy, Solar, wind, Hydropower and other renewable energy), zero carbon buildings, zero emission industries.

Carbon removal must result in a net reduction of atmospheric CO₂. This means that over its full lifecycle, the activity must To remove more CO₂ from the atmosphere than it emits.

Net-zero public building

The Green Lighthouse: the first net-zero public building in Denmark.Green Lighthouse diagram of low-energy techniques, such as natural ventilation, heating, and cooling, together with depiction of occupants and environmental conditions. (Christensen og Co. Arkitekter A/S, Green Lighthouse, University of Copenhagen, 2009).

Over the past 10 years, I have had the privilege to work with a great team of researchers, software developers, architects, and engineers to develop a number of software systems, prototypes, and concepts that can help us to transform the built environment from the problematic polluter it is today, to the climate cure it can become.

Carbon Dioxide Removal must result in a net reduction of atmospheric CO₂. This means that over its full lifecycle, the activity must remove more CO₂ from the atmosphere than it emits..

Each methodology outlines the carbon removal method's system boundaries, formulas for calculating how much carbon is removed, environmental safeguards, and the documentation needed for independent verification of CORCs to be issued to a project.

ZCB-Performance™ evaluates carbon emissions from normal building operations such as heating and cooling. It also accounts for potential refrigerant leaks and the embodied carbon of new structural and envelope materials. The Standard recognizes the value of renewable energy and high-quality carbon offsets while encouraging strategies that account for the ever-increasing demand on electrical grids...

Zero carbon means that no carbon emissions are being produced from a product or service (for example, a wind farm generating electricity, or a battery deploying electricity)..

Hydrogen and synthetic non-carbon fuels (ammonia), as well as battery power derived from zero- carbon electricity based on solar, wind, hydro or nuclear power are some of the options for reducing GHG emissions, which could be considered (effectively) zero carbon.