Augustine Senanu Komla Kukah

Engineering


Augustine is a first year doctoral researcher at the Centre for Smart Modern Construction (c4SMC) focusing on developing a carbon trading framework for the construction industry. He has a BSc in Quantity Surveying and Construction Economics and an MPhil in Construction Management.


Development of a carbon trading framework for the construction industry

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The need to control and reduce greenhouse gases has become urgent throughout the world. Emissions trading has been established to be a reasonable panacea in curbing future levels of emissions. The construction industry is an energy-intensive industry, whose energy consumption is still increasing. It is consistently one of the major contributors to carbon emissions due to the large quantities of energy and significant material utilization. As one of the most important sources of carbon emissions in the world, the construction industry is facing a great challenge in encouraging countries and firms to achieve carbon emission reduction. Thereby, there is the urgent need to apply carbon policies/carbon trading to the construction industry to control its carbon emissions. Carbon trading systems were originally not designed for the construction industry and have little application in the construction sector. The overall aim of this ongoing study is to develop a construction tailored carbon trading system. The research is supervised by A/Prof. Xiaohua (Sean) Jin, Dr. Robert Osei-Kyei and Prof. Srinath Perera.