by andrew.himes | Mar 30, 2024 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Investigación destacada de CLF, Datos y herramientas de LCA, Informe de investigación
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...
by andrew.himes | Mar 9, 2024 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Caso de estudio, Investigación destacada de CLF, Recursos de la política CLF, Noticias, Política
Policies that address embodied carbon are being proposed and adopted at all levels of government- federal, state and local- at a rapidly accelerating pace. This report highlights nine policies in the Northeast region of the United States and Canada as examples of...
by andrew.himes | Sep 8, 2023 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Investigación destacada de CLF, Recursos de la política 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...
by andrew.himes | Apr 18, 2023 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Investigación destacada de CLF, Datos y herramientas de LCA, Materiales, Informe de investigación
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...
by andrew.himes | Apr 17, 2023 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Investigación destacada de 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...
by andrew.himes | Apr 13, 2023 | Todos los recursos, Escrito por CLF, Investigación destacada de CLF, Datos y herramientas de LCA, 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...