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Platte Fifteen Life Cycle Assessment

ThinkWood and Woodworks Case Study Report (July 2021) Authors:KL&A Engineers and BuildersAdolfson & Peterson Mass timber structural systems are relatively new to the North American...

Embodied Carbon in Climate Smart Buildings

ThinkWood Report (February 2021) What is it? Embodied carbon for building materials is a measure of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with one or more life cycle stages. Total...

The Case for Regulating Embodied Carbon

UK Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) Report (February 2021) ACAN is calling for the urgent introduction of legislation to regulate embodied carbon emissions generated by construction...

Knowledge Infrastructure: The Critical Path to Advance Embodied Carbon Building Codes

ACEEE White Paper (December 2021) Authors Nora Esram and Ming Hu screened over 5,000 published articles, and reviewed 44 articles in extensive detail to identify the current state of knowledge...

Federal Buy Clean for Cement and Steel

Global Efficiency Intelligence Report (September 2021) The United States spends billions of dollars each year on government procurement. In 2018, the United States spent $110 billion in federal...

Build Clean: Industrial Policy for Climate and Justice

Climate Works Foundation Report (December 2020) The material economy is how we provide all the physical stuff we need and want—houses, utility lines, roads and railroads, cars and trucks,...

Lifecycle GHG Impacts in Building Codes

New Building Institute Report (January 2022) Embodied emissions have been largely ignored until recently by regulators, manufacturers, architects, engineers and builders, but that is fast...

Developing an Embodied Carbon Policy Reduction Calculator

The Developing an Embodied Carbon Policy Reduction Calculator report summarizes findings from the development of a proof-of-concept calculator and pilot study focused on estimating the carbon...

Buy Clean Buy Fair Washington Project

The Buy Clean Buy Fair (BCBF) Washington Project is a pilot study commissioned by the Washington State Legislature in 2021. The goal of this project is to evaluate the feasibility of BCBF data...

Template: Embodied Carbon Reduction Checklist for City Projects (V1)

Design and construction teams have a growing number of strategies and tools to choose from to reduce embodied carbon on their projects. This template provides a checklist for project teams to use...

CLF WBLCA Benchmark Study V2

Project Announcement | April 2022The Carbon Leadership Forum is pleased to announce the beginning of a multi-year project to develop a robust and harmonized database of WBLCA benchmarks. The...

Low-Carbon Concrete Pilot Project

Case Study: Pedestrian Crosswalk & Signal Pole Footings & Adjacent Sidewalk This pilot project compared the performance low carbon concrete mix with 50% cement replacement with a 100%...

Implementing Buy Clean

Guidance on Implementing Low-Carbon Construction Material Policies and Limits on Public ProjectsA growing number of government agencies at the local, state, and federal levels are integrating...

Buy Clean California Limits | February 2022

A Proposed Methodology for Assigning Industry-Average GWP Values for Steel, Mineral Wool, and Flat Glass in CaliforniaCalculating industry-average values using EPDs, as required by Buy Clean...

Part 3 – Carbon Reduction Strategies

Architects can often make large embodied carbon reductions with cost-neutral measures. A 2021 report from RMI found that case studies had embodied carbon savings of 24–46% at cost premiums of...

Part 2 – Measuring Embodied Carbon

Measuring embodied carbon is key to evaluating the highest-impact, most cost-effective solutions to reducing embodied carbon on your project. As is often said, “You can’t manage what you can’t...