Structural engineering: Low-Carbon Design
Sustainable design in our structural engineering services leverage our strong internal skills networks and align with our global commitment to contribute meaningfully to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Since a building’s structure accounts for 50% of its embodied carbon, structural engineers are essential players in the struggle toward carbon neutrality.
Our structural engineers lead the profession in demonstrating low embodied carbon designs. We have employed various embodied carbon reduction strategies on our projects, including:
- specifying low–carbon concrete
- employing sustainable mass timber
- incorporating salvaged steel
- designing for deconstruction, and
- circularity/ refurbishment
- pushing material efficiency beyond standard practice.
By acknowledging the greater role and responsibility of structural engineers in reducing carbon emissions, we have also expanded our technical services to offer:
- whole building life-cycle assessments
- embodied carbon policy assistance
- third-party expert support on low carbon concrete
- other nontraditional design strategies.
Quay Quarter Tower’s sustainable building design saves embodied carbon
Quay Quarter Tower, Australia
Designing and engineering the Netherlands’ tallest timber-hybrid residential building
HAUT, Netherlands
A mass-timber, low-carbon, vertical extension office solution
80 M Street SE, United States of America
Lowering emissions through innovative refurbishment
1 Triton Square, United Kingdom
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Structural engineering
Arup is a world class structural engineering practice with global reach and expertise developed from the firm’s founding, including on many of the world’s most iconic modern buildings and structures. We lead across contemporary key issues such as low-carbon design, existing building re-use and timber engineering.
