Chapter 21Green Six Sigma and Retrofitting Buildings
I have spent a fortune traveling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dew drop on a single blade of grass.
—Rabindranath Tagore
21.1 Introduction
Buildings contribute only 6% of total global greenhouse gas transmissions, thus ranking last of all sectors. Some reports (RIBA, 2021) have estimated that the contribution of buildings to greenhouse gas emissions is in fact much higher. Regardless, the important point is that this is one area where we as individuals can start to do something—now.
The term ‘buildings’ covers both industrial and residential ...
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