por andrew.himes | Feb 14, 2024 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Publicación CLF, CLF Roadway Infrastructure Toolkit, Infrastructure
Embodied carbon accounting is critical to identify key contributors to embodied carbon, evaluate the highest-impact, most cost-effective reduction opportunities, and track progress toward a net-zero carbon future. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the agreed-upon method...
por andrew.himes | Feb 13, 2024 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Publicación CLF, CLF Roadway Infrastructure Toolkit, Infrastructure
Roadway infrastructure results in significant greenhouse gas emissions released due to the extraction and manufacturing of materials and all other process necessary to build and maintain it – also known as embodied carbon. Once identified and quantified,...
por andrew.himes | Sep 8, 2023 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Investigación destacada de CLF, Recursos de políticas de CLF, Publicación CLF, Política, Publicaciones, Informe de investigación
A Policy-Focused Roadmap for Reducing Embodied Carbon In this report, the CLF lays out a vision and steps towards an ideal LCA ecosystem optimized for use as a tool for policy and private sector decarbonization action (focusing on the United States and Canada). This...
por andrew.himes | Apr 18, 2023 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Investigación destacada de CLF, Publicación CLF, Data and Tools, Materiales, Informe de investigación, Herramientas y datos
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...
por andrew.himes | Apr 17, 2023 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Investigación destacada de CLF, Publicación CLF, Materiales, Informe de investigación
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...
por andrew.himes | Apr 13, 2023 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Investigación destacada de CLF, Data and Tools, Informe de investigación
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...