CONTAINING CO_2

摘要

Amidst the chatter about sustainability and resilience that one would expect to hear at last fall's Greenbuild Expo in Atlanta, two related topics—Embodied Carbon (EC) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)—almost always came up, sometimes unprompted, in conversations with exhibitors and attendees. The Carbon Leadership Forum used that event to launch its Embodied Carbon Calculator for Construction (EC3), an open-source tool developed by Skanska and C Change Labs that allows benchmarking and assessment of embodied carbon (EC) for the purposes of design and procurement. Around the same time, Thornton Tomasetti was getting ready to make available Beacon, a parametric tool customized for structural engineers to measure EC while they are working on projects.