Media Coverage

2020

• 10/08/2020 – THE PLUS SIDE, Landscape Architecture Magazine
• 10/07/2020 – The Greens’ Clean Energy Plan, Scoop
• 10/06/2020 – How to disembody your carbon, The Fifth Estate
• 9/30/2020 – The Building Industry Gets Serious About Its Embodied Carbon Problem, Green Tech Media
• 9/29/2020 – The Buzz on Embodied Carbon, Remi Network
• 9/25/2020 – New WorldGBC report outlines how the Asia Pacific can build back better by tackling embodied carbon in built environment, World GBC
• 9/24/2020 – ­­­­­­How much extra does it cost to make a building net zero carbon?, Telangana Today
• 9/23/2020 – Embodied carbon in construction materials: a framework for quantifying data quality in EPDs, Buildings & Cities
• 9/22/2020 – Developers Shifting From Sustainable Buildings to Materials, The Urban Developer
• 9/22/2020 – What ‘net-zero carbon’ really means for cities, BBC
• 9/19/2020 – Amazon, Microsoft invest in sustainable concrete producer, Telangana Today
• 9/17/2020 – Amazon and Breakthrough Energy Ventures Co-Lead Investment in Cleantech Company, CarbonCure, Business Wire
• 9/17/2020 – Government’s ‘harmful’ Green Homes Grant ignores embodied energy, Architects’ Journal
• 9/13/2020 – Low carbon aluminium for construction, Construction Global
• 9/10/2020 – Glass Industry’s Role in Impacting Climate Change, Door and Window Market
• 9/09/2020 – Green Builder and the Department of Energy Webinar Series, Street Insider
• 9/08/2020 – From materials innovation to modular construction, Business Green
• 9/08/2020 – A call to action, Architecture Now
• 9/03/2020 – Reshaping Green Building Ideas, ENR
• 9/03/2020 – Time to change our choice of building materials, Muskoka Region
• 9/03/2020 – CIC Carbon Assessment Tool Integrated into BEAM Plus New Buildings, Yahoo
• 9/03/2020 – An embodied carbon primer for facility managers, Remi Network
• 9/03/2020 – World Green Building Council launches new Covid climate strategy, The Fifth Estate
• 8/31/2020 – Construction starts on unusual $80 million, 25-story mass timber apartment tower in downtown Milwaukee, Journal Sentinel
• 8/27/2020 – Waugh Thistleton Project is a Textbook of Modern Low-Carbon Design, Treehugger
• 8/26/2020 – Amazon names seattle’s net-zero carbon stadium the ‘climate pledge arena’, Designboom
• 8/26/2020 – Counting the carbon cost to transform building, BIM Today
• 8/21/2020 – Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios designs carbon negative timber office, Architecture and Design
• 8/20/2020 – Give it up for these examples of net-zero innovation, GreenBiz
• 8/17/2020 – Building climate resilience in a post-COVID world, Grist
• 8/13/2020 – Transition to Zero Pollution launches series to inform research and policy, Imperial College London
• 8/12/2020 – What we need is a buyers group for decarbonised materials, The Fifth Estate
• 8/05/2020 – Gs8 Announces Carbon And Energy Positive, Zero Waste Residential Development, Living Architecture Monitor
• 8/04/2020 – Decarbonizing the construction sector: The role of certification, ArchitectureAU
• 8/01/2020 – Marin County, Califor nia Creates World’s First Low-Carbon Concrete Code, Civil Engineering – (You must be able to log in as an ASCE member to read the article.)
• 7/31/2020 – Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios designs carbon negative timber office in London, ArchDaily
• 7/28/2020 – Construction Company Nexii Announces Trio Of Plants To Make Its Greener Concrete Alternative, Forbes
• 7/27/2020 – Urgent Issue: 10 Strategies to Decarbonize Architecture, ArchDaily
• 7/22/2020 – The New Green Standard: Zero Carbon Without a Net, Treehugger
• 7/21/2020 – Progress on Our Goal to be Net Zero by 2030, Microsoft
• 7/21/2020 – World’s Tallest Timber Building Set for Construction in  Australia, Yahoo News
• 7/16/2020 – Paris 2024: New Public Buildings to Be Made of 50% Bio-based Materials, Archi Expo
• 7/15/2020 – Free embodied carbon tool launches in the UK, UK GBC
• 7/15/2020 – Our ‘world-leading’ proposal to count and cut building emissions, Stuff
• 7/12/2020 – Ian Barnes: Enfield’s climate action plan, OnLondon
• 7/10/2020 – Those net-zero building commitments are adding up, Business Green
• 7/9/2020 – New Zealand unveils revolutionary green building program to fight climate change, The Fifth Estate
• 7/6/2020 – Georgia’s Mass Timber and the Triple Bottom Line, Saporta Report
• 7/2/2020 – Zeroing in on the key climate issues, Property Week
• 7/2/2020 – The blind spot of low-carbon buildings, Corporate Knights
• 7/1/2020 – Eight major UK contractors rally to tackle climate change, Construction Enquirer
• 6/29/2020 – Keltbray adds environmentally friendly concrete to temporary works offering, New Civil Engineer
• 6/29/2020 – Building Back Better with a Bold Green Recovery, Corporate Knights
• 6/28/2020 – Boston Society for Architecture Launches Embodied Carbon 101 Series, New Kerala
• 6/25/2020 – It’s Climate Pledge Arena (By Amazon), Sports Press
• 6/25/2020 – The world’s tallest hybrid timber tower to be built in Sydney, CNN Style
• 6/23/2020 – A Construction Company’s New Workplace Reveals Its Material Prowess, Metropolis Magazine
• 6/22/2020 – San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Terminal Gets Fitwel Certification, Treehugger
• 6/22/2020 – From farm to form: Flat house by Practice Architecture, Architects’ Journal
• 6/19/2020 – Architect Jeff Adams Designs a “Pretty Good House”, Treehugger
• 6/18/2020 – Inside Innovation: Embodied carbon — Construction industry’s ‘blind spot’, Daily Commercial News
• 6/18/2020 – New York Has Launched a New Sustainability Challenge, Washington Square News
• 6/18/2020 – What has Architects Declare achieved?, Architects’ Journal
• 6/17/2020 – Modular homes are the future, Property Week
• 6/17/2020 – Social housing is key to climate action, Environment Journal
• 6/16/2020 – Transparency builds around embodied carbon in construction materials, Living Building Chronicle
• 6/11/2020 – BIM to unlock efficiencies and life cycle analysis – time to step up governments, The Fifth Estate
• 6/11/2020 – Sustainability: Net zero carbon, Building
• 6/8/2020 – Embodied carbon an issue from raw material to demolition: Expert , Journal Of Commerce
• 6/2/2020 – A Call for Justice. A Call for Solidarity. , NSBE
• 4/21/2020 – Modernization Versus New Build Data Centers, serverfarm
• 3/6/2020 – Elemental Streamlining, Concrete Products
• 3/2/2020 – Continuing Education: Carbon Crackdown, Architectural Record
• 2/29/2020 – Carbon in the Built Historic Environment, Historic England
• 2/24/2020 – Los Angeles Continues Its Push to Find Carbon-Neutral Ground, Pillsbury
• 2/18/2020 – London is calling it early – net zero by 2030, but architects and UKGBC not happy with the roadmap, The Fifth Estate
• 2/13/2020 – Can the Concrete Jungle Sink CO2?, The American Prospect
• 2/13/2020 – Has the wooden skyscraper revolution finally arrived?, CNN Style
• 2/6/2020 – New Solutions Emerge For Embodied Carbon In Buildings, Forbes
• 2/5/2020 – Sustainability Tools Up: 3 Promising Tech Innovations to Help Architects Reduce Their Carbon Impact, Metropolis Magazine
• 2/3/2020 – Vancouver trailblazes on embodied carbon, Foresight Climate & Energy
• 1/24/2020 – High-tech, low-carbon concrete project a Canadian first at YYC Calgary International Airport, Yahoo Finance
• 1/24/2020 – These Carpets Take Aim at Global Warming, Metropolis Magazine
• 1/17/2020 – Businesses’ New Year’s resolutions should start with sustainability, Nashville Tennesean
• 1/16/2020 – The Carbon Issue, Architect Magazine
• 1/16/2020 – A Better Path to a Low-carbon Future? Green Building Advisor
• 1/16/2020 – Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete, New York Times
• 1/15/2020 – The Language of Carbon, Architect Magazine
• 1/14/2020 – Embodied Energy in Building Materials: What it is and How to Calculate It, Arch Daily
• 1/4/2020 – A Great Carbon Reckoning Comes to Architecture, Arch Daily
• 1/3/2020 – I’ve Been Polluting the Planet for Years. I’m Not an Oil Exec – I’m an Architect, Fast Company
• 1/2/2020 – The Climate Case for Construction, Greenbiz

2019

• 12/19/2020 – A Call to Action for Engineers on Climate Change, Engineering News-Record
• 12/12/2019 – EC3 Links Whole-Building Life-Cycle Assessment to Products, BuildingGreen
• 12/09/2019 – A Great Carbon Reckoning Comes to Architecture, Metropolis
• 12/07/2019 – Tackling climate change one building at a time, Tri-City-News
• 12/03/2019 – More Tools, Green Product Picks and Goals from Greenbuild, Engineering News-Record
• 12/02/2019 – New tool allows users to learn how to reduce embodied carbon, Building Design + Construction
• 11/27/2019 – Free embodied carbon calculator to help move to greener buildings, BIM +
• 11/27/2019 – New Tool Shows How to Reduce Embodied Carbon, Professional Builder
• 11/27/2019 – Marin County, Calif., Enacts First Low-Carbon Concrete Code in US, Engineering News-Record
• 11/27/2019 – Beta Version of Embodied Carbon Calculator Premieres, Engineering News-Record
• 11/25/2019 – Embodied carbon calculator launched, The Construction Specifier
• 11/22/2019 – SF Bay Area county approves premier low-carbon concrete code, Concrete Products
• 11/22/2019 – Embodied Carbon Tool Launches at Greenbuild 2019, Architectural Record
• 11/21/2019 – EPD data-fueled embodied carbon tool debuts at Greenbuild, Concrete Products
• 11/21/2019 – Purpose At Work: How Interface Is Building A Climate Movement With Business Solutions, Forbes
• 11/15/2019 – Halfway There: After Making Progress in Operational Efficiency, Buildings Must Now Consider Embodied Carbon, UrbanLand
• 11/15/2019 – New apps help builders reduce carbon footprint, Seattle Times
• 11/06/2019 – Climate Activists Maneuver To Reduce Embodied Carbon in Buildings, Engineering News-Record
• 11/04/2019 – Structural Engineers Unite Against Climate Change, BuildingGreen
• 10/28/2019 – Bill Gates’ Blog: Buildings are bad for the climate. Here’s what we can do about it. gatesnotes
• 10/13/2019 – Calculating the footprint of building products, GreenBiz 350 Podcast (52:52),
• 10/10/2019 – El Carbon Leadership Forum crea la calculadora de carbono incorporado en la construcción, EC3, Construible.es
• 10/04/2019 – Climate Roundup, Canadian Architect
• 10/04/2019 – Net zero achievable for building industry by 2050, Architecture & Design
• 10/04/2019 – World Green Building Council proposes ‘radical shift’ in how we think about emissions, ArchitectureAU
• 10/04/2019 – The urgent challenge of net zero embodied carbon, The Fifth State
• 10/02/2019 – World Green Building Council Calls for Net-Zero Embodied Carbon in Buildings by 2050, Engineering News-Record
• 10/02/2019 – At CarbonPositive ’19, Architects Single Out a Culprit: Big Buildings, Metropolis
• 09/27/2019 – Skanska Conceives Solution for Calculating Embodied Carbon in Construction Materials, Steel Guru
• 09/27/2019 – Skanska Creates Tool for Calculating Embodied CO2 in Construction Materials, Commercial Property Executive
• 09/26/2019 – The Carbon Leadership Forum Announces EC3 Tool Partnership, Floor Trends
• 09/26/2019 – Skanska USA Unveils Solution for Calculating Embodied Carbon in Construction Materials, For Construction Pros
• 09/26/2019 – Autodesk Announces the EC3 Tool Partnership—Combatting Carbon Emissions, Architosh
• 09/26/2019 – The Architect’s Guide to Climate Week in New York, Architectural Record
• 09/26/2019 – World Green Building Council calls for radical reduction in Upfront Carbon Emissions, Treehugger
• 09/26/2019 – Coalition maps Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator launch, Concrete Products
• 09/25/2019 – Carbon Leadership Forum Launches Calculator to Measure Carbon Footprint, Architect Magazine, journal of the American Institute of Architects
• 09/25/2019 – Skanska USA Conceives Solution for Calculating Embodied Carbon in Construction Materials, Announces Transition to Open-Source Tool, Global Newswire
• 09/25/2019 – New Tools Will Help Construction Industry Understand Its Carbon Footprint, Propmodo
• 09/24/2019 – Carbon reduction in construction: a net benefit, not just to the environment, but to the bottom line, LinkedIn
• 09/24/2019 – A new tool could make “carbon-aware” material specifications a reality, Archinect News
• 09/22/2019 – Tall buildings out of timber? In the face of climate change, Seattle encourages it, Seattle Times
• 09/17/2019 – For Sustainable Building Products and Materials, It Can’t be Business as Usual, Metropolis
• 09/16/2019 – Carbon Counting: Part 2 – A driver for US sourced aluminum? September blog post, Technoform
• 08/05/2019 – Carbon counting: why embodied carbon matters – August blog post, Technoform
• 08/02/2019 – Carbon Counting: Why “Embodied” Carbon Matters (Part 1), USGlass Magazine
• 08/02/2019 – Understanding embodied carbon, a key solution in sustainable architecture, UW Daily
• 07/24/2019 – Built on Sand, 99% Invisible Podcast
• 05/28/2019 – Help Available for Estimating Embodied Carbon in Building Systems, Engineering News Record
• 04/22/2019 – Importance of Reducing Embodied Energy in the Built Environment, Buildings.com
• 03/14/2019 – 5 green building trends: Lifecycle carbon assessment takes big step forward, The Kendeda Fund
• 02/19/2019 – Episode #61: Leveraging the Life Cycle Assessment for Useful Carbon Accounting with Professor Kate Simonen, Nori Podcast
• 01/25/2019 – Should I Stay or Should I Go: The Embodied Carbon of Buildings, The Institute for Market Transformation

2018

• 12/03/2018 – ‘Carbon accountability’: UW architecture professor Kate Simonen sees progress in work to reduce embodied carbon in construction materials, UW News
• 11/30/2018 – How Much Embodied Carbon Is In Your Building?, Buildings
• 10/09/2018 – Embodied Carbon on a Roll, BuildingGreen
• 09/20/2018 – Climate Summit Highlights States’ Commitment to Combating Global Warming, Architectural Record
• 09/18/2018 – Reducing Embodied Carbon and Operational Emissions in Buildings, Engineering News-Record
• 09/17/2018 – Universities should lead efforts to slow climate change, if the federal government won’t, Washington Post
• 09/10/2018 – The Urgency of Embodied Carbon and What You Can Do About It, BuildingGreen
• 07/17/2018 – Primer Debuts on Life-Cycle Assessments of Embodied Carbon in Buildings, Engineering News-Record
• 06/27/2018 – New buildings, same old carbon as materials drive greenhouse gas emissions, Real Estate Weekly
• 05/22/2018 – How Seattle’s Appetite for Construction Is Creating a Growing Waste Problem, Seattle Magazine
• 04/13/2018 – In a concrete jungle, one architect pushes for ‘plywood for giants’, Crosscut
• 02/11/2018 – Skanska: emissions goals cannot be achieved without tracking embodied carbon, Construction Climate Challenge

2017 and earlier

• 01/21/2017 – In heart of North Loop, a new office building becomes architectural attraction, StarTribune
• 08/03/2015 – Wood, Concrete, and Steel—And Their Incomparable EPDs, BuildingGreen
• 07/08/2015 – Innovative project would be Seattle’s second-tallest building, Seattle Times
• 01/16/2014 – Forum revises EPD-underpinning Product Category Rules for Concrete, Concrete Products
• 10/09/2013 – EPDs, what’s new, what’s now, what’s next? A roundtable discussion convened by the Carbon Leadership Forum, Sustainable Industries Weekly Digest
• 04/23/2013 – A greener concrete? UW-led coalition seeks to reduce concrete’s carbon footprint, UW News
• 12/16/2012 – Forum releases environmental standards for concrete mixes, Concrete Products
• 02/14/2011 – Carbon Leadership Forum will devise standards to limit carbon footprints in building products, UW News