Gerard Reinmuth & Philip Oldfield ·
Are Net-Zero Buildings Theoretically Possible?
Are Net-Zero Buildings Theoretically Possible?
Episode 37|
21 April 2025
"From my perspective - I'm an educator and a researcher - the thing that keeps me awake at night, the research question I'm interested in, is how can we create buildings that are necessary for society? We know 3 billion people globally don't have access to adequate housing. United Nations say we need to build 96,000 new homes a day. How can we achieve that within planetary limits? How can we achieve that without screwing the environment? And it's a paradox. How can we effectively double building stock while getting down to net-zero?"
Gerard Reinmuth & Philip Oldfield · Architect & Professors
Gerard Reinmuth is a Director at Terroir Architects and the inaugural Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, and Philip Oldfield is Head of the Built Environment School in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales. They are both co-authors on a paper recently published in Sustainable Cities and Society, titled 'Towards net-zero embodied carbon: Investigating the potential for ambitious embodied carbon reductions in Australian office buildings'.
- Towards net-zero embodied carbon: Investigating the potential for ambitious embodied carbon reductions in Australian office buildings
- Philip Oldfield (UNSW)
- Philip Oldfield (IG)
- Gerard Reinmuth (UTS)
- Gerard Reinmuth (IG)
- Terroir
- Article: Launceston's mass timber building a glimpse into the built environment future
- [Related] Original Thinkers: Scott Balmforth (Terroir)
- [Related] Potsdam Institute: Buildings can become a global CO2 sink if made out of wood instead of cement and steel
- [Related] Original Thinkers: David Rowlinson (Planet Ark)
