Tuesday, March 23, 2010

A focus on buildings could do a lot of heavy lifting

Rob Gell told me about the interesting work being done by global company Siemens on future energy and water planning. It was released on World Water Day in Melbourne this week.

I saw a bit in the press but it mostly picked up their comment on the future of electric vehicles (big). But there is much more to their work and worth having a look at - and noting that they see "more than" 30% CO2 reductions by 2030 from 2010 levels in buildings...and given that buildings contribute around 40% of total emissions, we are talking big potential savings here.