The Carbon Price and the Property and Construction Market

Davis Logan (unit of AECOM Australia Pty Ltd)
http://bit.ly/Nf7zKC

[From Architecture and Design] A report from Davis Langdon has found that the impact of Australia’s carbon pricing on construction costs is less than 0.5 per cent, after considering industry compensation in the first year of the scheme.

The report looked into how each aspect of the clean energy legislative package will impact the construction of buildings and infrastructure using Davis Langdon’s purpose built Embodied Carbon Metric (ECM) to analyse building materials for their embodied carbon content.

The carbon price impact on road and rail projects is notably higher than on the buildings sector…

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