Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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MS. SORG: I had a question of Marvin. You
know, the prepackaged systems that you are talking
about, and we're talking now about a carbon
footprint in building design. And I was curious if
there has been any study, you know, doing this kind
of packaging because transportation is a big issue
and embodied energy is a big issue in carbon
footprint, whether or not there has been any
analysis of that kind of thing if you do this kind
of prepackaging and shipping.
DR. OEY: I'm not too familiar with any
studies, but I have seen in the chemical industries
that the prepackaging but I'm not sure of the carbon
footprints, sort of the error and omissions type of
things.
A lot of the newer technologies that are
coming out are being sold or marketed as prepackaged
systems on skids. Now, in industry, in the chemical
industries, the three different things that I talked
about, the PP, the prefabrication, it actually goes
in different levels, where you've got different
sizes. They are actually shipping parts of plants
now that are sizes of buildings that you connect.
It's essentially rolled out to a site. And that
tends to be a lot of complexities in it. But some
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