RICS: Rethinking Carbon in the Construction Industry with Co-Founder & Director of EALA Impacts, Aythan Lewes #21

When 50% of embodied carbon is in sub and superstructures, the impact of demolition on a building’s carbon footprint becomes an essential consideration.

Having used his skills as a chartered surveyor in the realm of pre-demolition audits, Aythan Lewes is now using his talents to help clients make greener decisions as a Co-Founder of EALA Impacts.

We discuss how a pre-demo audit carries a huge impact in reducing carbon emissions, breaking our focus on new buildings, representing social value on the triple bottom line, and the future of digitised material passports.

This episode of The RICS Podcast covers:

• The pre-demolition audit’s role in reducing emissions
• How material passports can be digitised an used to better reuse building materials
• The Triple Bottom Line, and considerations when representing social value
• Breaking the focus on new buildings, when 80% of buildings we need in 2050 already exist
• Aythan’s EALA Impacts, and how they’re proving the business case for sustainability in existing building stock