Episode #75: One Number – Jonathon “JoMo” Layton, Layton Consulting

About this episode

Jonathon “JoMo” Layton discusses the concept of simplifying sustainability compliance to a single carbon emissions number.

How would it be if all the databases and charts and spreadsheets and regulations and tiers defining whether our products comply with sustainable building laws just…went away? Replaced by one number: – the only number that matters – the amount of carbon dioxide emitted over a building’s lifetime as a result of its manufacture, construction, use and disposal. Partner at Layton Consulting, Jonathon “JoMo” Layton joins the podcast to chew over this radical idea and lend his expertise to the question of whether it could work and how it would affect us all.

People in this episode

Guest: Jonathon “JoMo” Layton

Topics covered

• sustainable building
• carbon emissions
• consulting

Keywords

• sustainability
• building laws
• carbon dioxide
• manufacture
• construction

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