Brook Waldman

by Brook Waldman

Thinking about whole buildings? Reminder to check out the 2024 California Carbon Report – an analysis of embodied and operational carbon emissions of 30 buildings. It’s the first of a series of reports to be released as part of the multi-year CLF WBLCA Benchmarking Study (v2). Coming soon in 2025, the CLF will publish a major report based on this project’s analysis of WBLCA results from over 240 buildings and release an open-access dataset for individuals to explore. 

Thinking about products? Here at CLF, we are hard at work on the 2025 CLF North American Material Baselines project. This next version will include several new North America baseline values for product types with no baseline value in 2023 (including CMU, brick, fiberglass insulation, and others) and several updated baseline values based on the latest EPD data (including mineral wool insulation, spray foam insulation, resilient flooring, and others). Check out the 2023 version below to freshen up on the report and let us know your success stories or lessons learned on LinkedIn or by emailing us.
North American Material Baselines
2023 Carbon Leadership Forum North American Material Baselines

The CLF Baseline values represent an estimate of industry-average GHG emissions for construction materials manufactured in North America. An overwhelming majority of the CLF Baselines published in this report are based on a North American industry-wide EPD if one was available at the time of publication. As such, it is appropriate to use this number as a rough estimate of a product type’s embodied carbon before a specific product has been selected or as a reference value against which product-level comparisons can be made.

Check out the recording of the 2023 CLF North American Material Baselines webinar! Hosted by CLF staff, this session includes a project overview, version updates, FAQs, and a Q&A discussion.

Explore the Baselines
 
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Martin Escarbelt

Marketing Associate, CarbiCrete


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John Cays

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Hillier College of Architecture and Design

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  • CLF Program Director Meghan Lewis was featured on the Design the Future Podcast
  • CLF British Columbia Regional Hub publishes Cost-Effective Embodied Carbon Reduction Through Structural Design Choices
  • Request for Proposals for Washington Buy Clean and Buy Fair Database
  • Boston becomes first city in the country to require new buildings to achieve net zero carbon emissions standards upon opening
  • Colorado Dept. of Transportation published GWP limits, becoming the first state to have different GWP limits for building and infrastructure materials. (Find the Office of the State Architect building materials GWP limits aquí)
Structural Engineering Sustainability Symposium
Design for Freedom Summit at Grace Farms

March 27, 2025 | CLF is proud to partner with Grace Farms for the fourth annual Design for Freedom Summit! CLF staff Michelle Lambert y meghan byrne will join hundreds of industry leaders, innovators, and change-makers to support human rights and eliminate forced and child labor from the building materials supply chain. Attendees will engage with the latest research and technology to actualize the Design for Freedom Principles: to find and address forced labor, pursue ethical decarbonization, and prioritize circularity.

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From Data to Action: Reducing Construction Emissions
NESEA BuildingEnergy Boston Conference

March 20-21, 2025 | BuildingEnergy Boston is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together leaders and emerging professionals committed to developing a more sustainable, healthy, and resilient built environment. Connect with CLF Staff Michelle Lambert y Andrew Himes at this year’s conference! Andrew will be giving the keynote, titled Carbon (R)Evolution: Collective Impact and Decarbonization in the Building Industry, and both are on a panel titled,  Keynote Follow-Up: Models of Collective Impact.

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