Ep. 11: 11 Minutes on Embodied-Carbon Reduction for Bridges

In this episode, host Amy Hattan talks with structural engineer Elizabeth Brownell about reducing embodied carbon in bridges. Elizabeth discusses the importance of policies like New York’s Buy Clean Concrete and Executive Order 22 and shares insights on how engineers can measure and optimize embodied carbon throughout a bridge’s design and construction. She also emphasizes the need for changes in Department of Transportation specifications to further reduce carbon emissions in infrastructure projects.

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Amy Hattan, Corporate Responsibility Officer at Thornton Tomasetti, talking with experts from Thornton Tomasetti, which is an engineering and consulting firm with more than 1,600 people worldwide. At Thornton Tomasetti, we’ve been focused on embodied carbon since 2012.  We’ve spent over a decade building a roadmap our planners and designers can use to achieve the greatest reductions in greenhouse gas emissions on their projects. This series will share some of the paths we take.