Performance: Reaching a Zero Carbon Future

September 27, 2021

This issue of Performance is focused on carbon. Members of Tetra Tech’s High Performance Buildings Group discuss the global impact of buildings on the environment and the strategies we can employ to reduce both the immediate and ongoing impacts our of buildings.

Tetra Tech High Performance Buildings Group Data-Driven Design title over picture of a woman in front of a computer.

Expertise

Data-Driven Design—Lowering Embodied Carbon

Exploring the scale of and methods to reduce emissions from the embodied carbon of buildings

The Jersey City, New Jersey skyline will include The Cove, where Tetra Tech is designing a sewer heat recovery system.

Innovation

Thermal Energy Recovery from Wastewater

Moving toward a more sustainable economy

Tetra Tech’s building energy modeling team developed interactive dashboards for California State University.

Project Profile

Data-driven Planning to Decarbonizing University Campuses in California

Developing a comprehensive campus decarbonization framework for the California State University system

The cost of Net Zero Carbon office buildings still comes at a cost premium, but those costs in many cases can be offset

Expertise

The Net Zero Numbers: Offices

Looking at different cost scenarios for designing Net Zero Carbon buildings in the United Kingdom

Tip of the iceberg: a small part that is seen or known when there is a much larger part that is not seen or known about.

Expertise

Carbon Offsetting—The Tip of the Iceberg

Exploring the three key components that are most critical to designing carbon neutral buildings