
CLF sponsor companies span the building industry, from architectural and engineering firms to material manufacturers, from construction companies to consultants in whole building life cycle assessment (WBLCA), from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to researchers, from facade designers to real estate investment and management companies. CLF sponsors participate in lively, generative conversations and collaborations working to reduce embodied carbon emissions from built environments.
Carbon Leadership Forum sponsors include architectural and engineering firms, contractors, material suppliers, educators, building owners, policymakers and associations. Sponsors collaborate through monthly conference calls, an online forum, regional hubs, action teams, and focus groups, advancing new ideas and approaches through shared tools, data, news and information, and impactful initiatives to reduce embodied carbon.
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Arup: Galvanizing a Movement, Scaling Change
Sharing a Vision of Robust Technical Guidance and Collective Action by Frances Yang, Structures and Sustainability Specialist at Arup Prior to the formation of the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) in 2009, there were few well established networks for Arup to share...
CarbonBuilt: The Age of Incrementalism Must Close
Time for Transformative Change by Rahul Shendure, CEO of CarbonBuilt Remember how long it took to tap out a message on a Blackberry using that little stylus? (If you’re too young to remember, just pretend you do.) Back then, we accepted the slow pace of mobile...
Sellen: Sustainability at the Core of the Company
Pushing the Boundaries, Leaving a Legacy by Erin Kirkpatrick and Angi Rivera Sellen first targeted embodied carbon in 2013 on the Helen Sommers Building, a design-build project with ZGF Architects for the State of Washington. The 234,000-square-foot, five-story...
Autodesk Partners with Customers on Total Carbon Management
Harnessing data, automation, and insights to improve the impact of design and build decisions by Joe Speicher, head of ESG and Impact, Autodesk It's hard to pin down a specific point in time when demand for carbon management solutions expanded from a small crest to...
KieranTimberlake: Total Lifecycle Carbon Accounting
KieranTimberlake has long believed it is our collective ethical obligation to protect our environment, which increasingly means focusing on radically reducing our carbon emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
StopWaste: Collaboration in Local Government
by Miya Kitahara Creating new business and job opportunities while boosting the production of efficient and low-carbon housing StopWaste is a public agency with an unusual role in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a joint powers authority, collaboration is in our DNA....
SOM: Urban Sequoia – Buildings as Solutions
by Kent Jackson and Chris Cooper Urban Sequoia: A Concept for Buildings and Their Urban Context to Absorb Carbon at an Unprecedented Rate At COP26, the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) unveiled Urban Sequoia – a...
Softwood Lumber Board
by Kabira Ferrell, Vice-President for Communications for the Softwood Lumber Board Supporting the development of tools, transparency, and data to support the sustainable use of a premier biogenic material An estimated 80% of the embodied carbon attributable to...
WSP: High Performance, Low Carbon
by Teresa Vangeli and Sarah Buffaloe Using Life Cycle Assessments to Expand Embodied Carbon Reduction Practices for Buildings and Infrastructure As employees of WSP USA — one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services consultancies — and...
Mithun: Embodying Change
by Claire McConnell and Sean Cryan Linking Research, Development, and Projects Mithun’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions in the built environment is a key tenet of our integrated design practice, informing project approach, firm culture and advocacy efforts....
Interface: “Climate Take Back”
A mission to create a climate fit for life and reverse global warming by Lisa ConwayVP of Sustainability, Interface Americas In 1994, Interface’s founder Ray Anderson set our company’s first moonshot goal. Coming on the heels of his famous “spear in the chest...
Walter P. Moore: A Collaborative Approach
by Dirk KestnerPrincipal - Director of Sustainable Design at Walter P Moore Twenty years ago, when I started my career as a Graduate Engineer at Walter P Moore, I had just completed research on the implications of recycling crushed concrete as aggregate in new...
MKA: Engineering an Environmental Solution
Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA):A Focus on Making a Climate Difference Finding creative and innovative structural engineering solutions has proved to be one of the most rewarding aspects of our careers. But perhaps the biggest challenge of our generation...
Thornton Tomasetti’s Long Carbon Experience
A firm-wide goal to lead the industry in the reduction of embodied carbon in structures by Amy HattanVice President for Corporate Responsibility, Thornton Tomasetti Nine years ago, I I became the first Corporate Responsibility Officer at the engineering services...
CarbonCure Odyssey: Inside the Movement to Reduce Embodied Carbon
by Christie Gamble, Senior Director of Sustainability, CarbonCure Technologies As the Senior Director of Sustainability at CarbonCure Technologies and a Board Member of the Carbon Leadership Forum, I have found myself at the forefront of a rapidly growing movement...