End-of-Life Modeling and Data in North American Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment Tools
At the end of their service lives, building materials are either recovered (e.g., reused, recycled, incinerated) or disposed of in landfills. In life cycle assessment (LCA) terms, the environmental impacts due to material recovery or disposal are accounted for within...
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...
Datos abiertos paramétricos para la evaluación del ciclo de vida
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...
Desarrollo de una calculadora de reducción de la política de carbono incorporado
El informe Desarrollando una calculadora de reducción de políticas de carbono incorporadas resume los hallazgos del desarrollo de una calculadora de prueba de concepto y un estudio piloto centrado en estimar los potenciales de ahorro de carbono de las políticas de carbono incorporadas en toda la ciudad. Acerca de Un crecimiento...