The case for Centres of Excellence in sustainable building design

Estimated results
Carbon abatement
The impact of the Centres of Excellence project can be evaluated by multiplying
the impact of an individual graduate over their active career by the number of
graduates in each cohort and the expected career duration. During the study
period 7,128 graduates will enter the industry. However, due to the attrition rates,
few of these will remain active throughout the period of analysis.
Figure 4: Career duration of graduates actively engaged in carbon abatement
projects during the analysis period.
From Figure 4, it can be seen that only two graduates from the 2016 cohort
remain actively working in the field through the entire 34 year period of the
analysis and thus achieve the maximum abatement potential indicated in
Figure 3. The remainder of the graduates entering the industry achieve reduced
abatement due to their shorter career spans. There are 919 graduates engaged
in the field for only one year; 216 of these are graduates in the year 2049.
Nevertheless, the benefits from graduates entering the field during the late part
of the analysis period will still continue to accrue beyond 2054 the lifetime of the
building projects worked upon.
Aggregating the yearly abatement of an individual graduate gives the cumulative
carbon dioxide savings for careers of any particular duration as shown in Figure 4.
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