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 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 ...

Engineering giant Thornton Tomasetti has launched Beacon, an open-source embodied carbon measurement tool poised to change the way structural engineers understand and manage embodied carbon ...

Creators of the free-to-use Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator have added several features since the tool’s release last November. And more are coming, says EC3’s developer. Many of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IATA and Atkins have created a suite of digital tools for airports to estimate the embodied carbon associated with the construction of terminal buildings and aviation assets. The digital toolkit will ...

For landscapes, approximately 75 percent of emissions come from embodied carbon. These are generated by the extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and installation of landscape materials. The ...