SE 2050 Data Analysis and Findings Report Published

by Zeenah Ziino | Dec 9, 2024 | All Resources, News, Research Report, Structural

“The mission of the SE 2050 Commitment is to support the SE 2050 Challenge and transform the practice of structural engineering in a way that is holistic, firm-wide, project based, and data-driven. By prioritizing reduction of embodied carbon, through the use of less...

RMI Concrete Solutions Guide

by | Aug 6, 2022 | All Resources, Construction, Materials, Structural

The RMI Concrete Solutions Guide released in August 2021 provides a user-friendly overview of proven and scalable solutions to reduce concrete’s contribution to climate change. The guide highlights six key opportunities to reduce embodied carbon in concrete products...

Floor Loadings and the Climate Emergency

by | Aug 6, 2021 | All Resources, Structural

Will Hawkins, Angus Peters and Tim Mander argue for designers to challenge overspecification and grasp the opportunity that reduced floor loads offer for low-carbon structural design. To align with climate targets, we must reduce the embodied carbon of building...

Structures Video Playlist

by | Aug 6, 2021 | Authored by CLF, Structural, Video

This playlist from CLF’s Youtube channel is a compilation of webinars and presentations created by members, contributors, and staff of the Carbon Leadership Forum. View the playlist on Youtube Tip for using playlistsTo see all the videos in a playlist, click the...

ECOM: Embodied Carbon Estimator – Structures

by | Aug 6, 2020 | All Resources, LCA Data & Tools, Structural

Want to quickly find the embodied carbon order of magnitude of your project or framing scheme?  Use this very simple estimator below that we call ECOM. ECOM stands for (E)mbodied (C)arbon (O)rder of (M)agnitude and is a basic embodied carbon estimator. ECOM allows...

Conscious Concrete Implementation Strategy

by | Aug 6, 2020 | All Resources, Structural

To meet global emissions targets and curb the negative effects of climate change, ambitious sustainability goals must be set and exceeded in the design of the buildings we create. Given the large carbon footprint of the built environment, a unified approach to the...