{"id":1965,"date":"2026-02-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csi-staging.redaxis.eu\/news\/buildings-as-carbon-sinks-the-global-construction-c-sink-in-practice\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:04:12","slug":"buildings-as-carbon-sinks-the-global-construction-c-sink-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/news\/buildings-as-carbon-sinks-the-global-construction-c-sink-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Buildings as carbon sinks: The Global Construction C-Sink in Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Construction C-Sink Standard makes this possible by verifying buildings that store biogenic carbon long-term through materials like hemp, wood, cork, straw, cellulose and biochar. Carbon that was once in the atmosphere becomes part of the building itself - traceable, verifiable, and long-lasting.<\/p>\n<p>In our latest video, Christoph Neururer and Andy Keel from OPENLY presents a real pilot project that shows what climate-friendly construction can look like today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoidance first - reducing CO\u2082-intensive components wherever possible<\/li>\n<li>High C-sink potential - hempcrete walls, cork &amp; cellulose insulation, wood structures<\/li>\n<li>Innovation - reinforced concrete with biochar to bind additional carbon<\/li>\n<li>Designed for disassembly - a house seen as a future raw-material depot<\/li>\n<li>Healthy living - controlled ventilation without pipes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the house of the pilot project about 350 m\u00b3 of hempcrete was used - hemp absorbs ~1.7 kg CO\u2082 per kg during just three months of growth. Stored safely in the building for decades.<\/p>\n<p>With the first Global Construction C-Sink verification, OPENLY now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shares knowledge through monthly trainings<\/li>\n<li>Acts as Global Construction C-Sink Manager, verifying biogenic carbon sinks in buildings worldwide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is how construction becomes part of the climate solution - from day one.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video and imagine what our buildings could become.<\/p>\n<div class=\"csi-embed\" data-youtube=\"6I2pNlZicBk\" data-title=\"YouTube video player\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if our buildings didn\u2019t just emit CO\u2082 - but stored it long-term?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-standards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbon-standards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}