While reducing the operational carbon impacts of structures is important, focus has turned to the impacts of material choices and construction itself – the embodied carbon of a building from ...

The tool can be used to calculate the embodied carbon of key materials that account for upward of 70% of a building’s global carbon emissions. Reducing this impact requires paying much more attention ...

RESNET 1550 and BEAM are changing the game by making it easier for home builders to reduce emissions during the build process ...

A view of the structure of a conceptual building in EC3 showing the embodied energy of its steel and concrete elements. By now it is routine for project teams to consider energy efficiency as part of ...

The Carbon Leadership Forum has released the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (“EC3”) tool. The open source tool is for architects, engineers, owners, construction companies, building ...

Two of the construction industry’s heavyweights were instrumental in the development of new tools that measure embedded carbon in building materials, with an eye toward significantly reducing the ...

The impact of embodied carbon in the built environment has been difficult to assess, due to a lack of data. To address that knowledge gap civil and environmental engineers have created a new tool to ...

At last month’s Global Climate Action Summit, Microsoft announced it is the first large corporate user of a new tool to track carbon emissions associated with raw building materials. At last month’s ...

Designers, using EC3, need to consider embodied carbon reduction very early in a project to be able to specify carbon-smart procurement of materials, say EC experts. The recent launch of the beta ...

The ACI Foundation has partnered with the Carbon Leadership Forum on the formal launch of the public beta of the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) tool. The EC3 tool is a free, ...

The conversation in environmental circles continuously loops back to the construction industry, with widely accepted estimates that building materials and carbon release from existing structures ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Calculating the carbon footprint of buildings can be tricky ...