Gent Waste Brick: Reducing the Construction Embodied Carbon

Carmody Groarke, Contributors, Densities, Formats, No Density, Project, Technology and fabrication, Topics.

Belgium, Brick, Carbon-emissions, Circular economy, CO2 emissions, Concrete, Designing Matter, Fabrication, Ghent, Local manufacture, Local resources, Performative Envelope, Project, Recycling, Resilience, Tradition, Waste management.

Design team: Carmody Goarke, BC Materials, Local Works Studio and TRANS architects.

A Belgian clay-fired brick is typically calculated at 0.54 kg CO2e/kg. Data sourced from TOTEM: EcoInvent Database for a 60-year life cycle, Stages A-D to EN15804+A2:2019.

As part of a masterplan to transform the Design Museum Gent, the museum is undertaking a major renovation project to extend its existing buildings. Due to start on site later in the year, the new wing will house galleries and event spaces to broaden the museum’s cultural programming and visitor outreach.