Embodied Carbon or Operational Carbon? Stirling Prize finalist makes his case

2019-10-15T11:22:00-04:00

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include clarifying comments from Matthew Howland.

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Cork House designer Matthew Barnett Howland recently had some thoughts concerning this year's Stirling Prize winner. According to BD, the finalist "was speaking at the Stirling Prize party after Mikhail Riches' Goldsmith Street council housing...was named the winner...for being Passivhaus-compliant..."

Cork House, Berkshire, by Matthew Barnett Howland with Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton. Photo: Magnus Dennis

According to BD, Howland's primary gripe was the observed dismissal of embodied carbon by regulators. "I can see that [Goldsmith Street’s] social aspects are probably more important but where’s the conversation about whole life carbon, about lifecycles? Wake up! Why aren’t we talking openly about this stuff?" he said, reports BD.

Cork House, Berkshire, by Matthew Barnett Howland with Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton. Photo: Ricky Jones.

But, it appears, according to Howland, that these c...

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Embodied Carbon or Operational Carbon? Stirling Prize finalist makes his case