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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Embodied Carbon Lab at Thornton Tomasetti has calculated the embodied carbon of more than 600 structural engineering projects over the past seven years. Beacon was developed based on the firm's ...

New York, Sept. 23, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Skanska USA, alongside the Carbon Leadership Forum and partners in industry, today announced the creation of the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator ...

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 ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building Transparency announces today its suite of open access data and tools that support broad and swift action across the building industry in addressing embodied carbon’s ...

Software developer Bentley Systems has doubled down on its emphasis on open data standards and data lakes for design and construction, introducing two products earlier this month—OpenSite+ for civil ...

Corgan's Varun Kohli says that approximately 20% of a mass timber building’s total energy usage over its lifetime is determined before it is built and occupied. August 15, 2025 Mass timber buildings ...