1 – Introduction to Embodied Carbon
Embodied carbon emissions are generated by the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal of construction materials used in buildings, roads, and other infrastructure. Introduction As building designers, we have already put significant...
2023 CLF North American Material Baselines Report
Carbon Leadership Forum Material Baselines for North America / August 2023 The CLF North American Material Baselines Report provides a snapshot of the state of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for North American-produced building materials. This report...
GHG Emissions Inventory from Construction of Washington State Dept. of Transportation Roadways
Washington State Department of Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Project / April 2023 A growing number of federal and state-level policies have started requiring embodied carbon reporting from roadway construction projects. However, few have inventories and/or...
Parametric Open Data for Life Cycle Assessment
About In the spring of 2022, ARPA-E announced a cohort of material and building design teams for the “Harnessing Emissions into Structures Taking Inputs from the Atmosphere” (HESTIA) Program. Each team in the program is working on a project to develop a...