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\u201cThe mission of the SE 2050 Commitment is to support the SE 2050 Challenge and transform the practice of structural engineering in a way that is holistic, firm-wide, project based, and data-driven. By prioritizing reduction of embodied carbon, through the use of less and\/or less impactful structural materials, participating firms can more easily work toward net zero embodied carbon structural systems by 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n
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After several years of collecting embodied carbon data from SE 2050 Signatory firms, the SE 2050 Commitment Program has announced the publication of its first analysis and findings report based on this data. The study and report were completed and overseen by members of the SE 2050 Committee making up the internal Data Science Team and peer-reviewed by an external panel. The complete inaugural report, titled SE 2050 Commitment Program 2023 Data Analysis and Findings Report<\/a>, is currently being prepared for publication by ASCE Publications. While the full report will be available for purchase as an ebook through the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Executive Summary will be free for everyone to download.<\/p>\n SE 2050 stands for the Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program, <\/b>which is in response to the SE 2050 Challenge issued in 2019 by the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF). The SE 2050 Commitment Program was developed by the Sustainability Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the ASCE. This comprehensive program was designed to ensure substantive embodied carbon reductions in the design and construction of structural systems by the collective structural engineering profession.<\/p>\n The SE 2050 Commitment Program was developed in response to the SE 2050 Challenge, which states:<\/p>\n All structural engineers shall understand, reduce and ultimately eliminate embodied carbon in their projects by 2050.<\/p>\n In December 2019 the SEI Board of Governors endorsed the vision of the SE 2050 Challenge by stating:<\/p>\n We, the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), support the vision and ambition of the SE 2050 Challenge. We, as a leading structural engineering organization in the United States, recognize the need for coordinated action across our profession to achieve the globally stated goal of net zero carbon by 2050.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”ede91ac6-defa-47a4-be6d-aa090cfca5f5″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]Executive Summary (preprint)<\/h2>\n