Resources: Embodied Carbon in Buildings

Name: Boston Society for Architecture
Address: 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston, MA, 02210, US
Telephone: 617-391-4000
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Embodied Carbon 101—Video Archive

View all sessions from our Embodied Carbon 101 series here.

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BSA Embodied Carbon in Buildings presentation—Session 1: Embodied Carbon 101
BSA Embodied Carbon in Buildings presentation—Session 2: Materials and Carbon
BSA Embodied Carbon in Buildings presentation—Session 3: Design Decisions
Getting Carbon-Thoughtful (Payette)

Read

10 steps to reducing embodied carbon (The American Institute of Architects)
Bringing embodied carbon upfront (World Green Building Council)
Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance (MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub)
Embodied Carbon Benchmark Study: LCA for Low Carbon Construction (Carbon Leadership Forum)
Embodied Carbon in Building Materials for Real Estate (Urban Land Institute)
Embodied Carbon on a Roll (BuildingGreen)
Embodied Energy—Just What Is It and Why Do We Care? (BuildingGreen)
It's Time to Talk About Carbon (Payette)
Flyer for Producers (CarbonCure Technologies)
Life Cycle Assessment (Kathrina Simonen AIA)
Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings: A Practice Guide (Carbon Leadership Forum)
NESEA 2019: Carbon Drawdown Now! Turning Buildings into Carbon Sinks presentation and recap (New Frameworks Natural Design/Build and Endeavour Sustainable Building School)
New Buildings: Embodied Carbon (Architecture 2030)
New Carbon Architecture (Bruce King)
Reducing embodied environmental impacts of buildings: Policy options and technical infrastructure (Athena Sustainable Materials Institute)
Specification Considerations for Engineers (CarbonCure Technologies)
The New Net Zero (Lori Ferriss AIA, PE)
The Time Value of Carbon (Carbon Leadership Forum)
The Urgency of Embodied Carbon and What You Can Do About It (BuildingGreen)
Whole-building LCA benchmarking white paper open for comment (Athena Sustainable Materials Institute)
Whole Life Carbon Assessment for the Built Environment (RICS)

Listen

99% Invisible: Built on Sand with Kate Simonen AIA
Build Better: Jean Carroon of Goody Clancy & Jeremy Gregory of MIT CSHub (High-Profile)
Science Friday: How The World Of Building Materials Is Responding To Climate Change
Why Is This Happening?: The Uninhabitable Earth with David Wallace-Wells

Watch

Carbon Smart Building Day (Carbon Smart Building)
NESEA 2019: Carbon Drawdown Now! Turning Buildings into Carbon Sinks (New Frameworks Natural Design/Build and Endeavour Sustainable Building School)
The grand challenges of climate change with Bill Gates
To Net Zero Carbon and Beyond: Framing the Challenge with Edward Mazria FAIA (Carbon Smart Building)

Use

Athena Impact Estimator for Buildings (Athena Sustainable Materials Institute)
Carbon Smart Materials Palette (Architecture 2030)
Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3)
GaBi
mindful MATERIALS Library
One Click LCA
Road Map to Reducing Building Life Cycle Impacts (Carbon Leadership Forum)
Quartz
Tally LCA App for Revit (KieranTimberlake)

Connect

Embodied Carbon Network (Carbon Leadership Forum)
International Living Future Institute
materialsCAN (Carbon Action Network)
Team Zero (Net Zero Energy Coalition)