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 ...

A public beta version of a new tool that enables users to learn how building and infrastructure projects can “radically reduce embodied carbon” was released at Greenbuild this month. The Embodied ...

Researchers at the University of Bath have developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) tool that predicts the carbon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building Transparency, a nonprofit organization that provides open-access data and tools to foster a better building future, is proud to announce its latest round of ...

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 ...

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 ...

How buildings are built and operated can have far-reaching environmental implications. While there has been some movement toward more sustainable energy portfolios with net-zero energy and net-zero ...

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 ...