Low carbon buildings require carbon-smart design and materials. But how do you know what materials are best? How do you measure? And how do you find them?
One tool is the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) from Building Transparency. This free tool uses data from Environmental Product Declarations to estimate a building project’s embodied carbon emissions based on the construction estimate or BIM model. The result: an embodied carbon snapshot that can help teams specify low-carbon products. Learn more about why measuring embodied carbon is important and how it works from Building Transparency. Kudos to the development partners for the EC3 tool: Skanska, Autodesk, the Carbon Leadership Forum, and others!