Westminster City Council King Street Low Carbon Trial - Client Report

Figure 12 - Graph showing how the embodied carbon is broken down

BREAKDOWN OF EMBODIED CARBON BY WORKS TYPE

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Site Clearance

Structural Concrete

Fencing

Earthworks

Paving

Marlborough Hill

King Street

This demonstrates that cementitious products are the biggest producers of carbon within highways works and that if carbon is considered at the outset of the scheme, there are opportunities to introduce lower carbon options at the early design stages.

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