Resources: Embodied Carbon in Buildings
Want to learn more about embodied carbon in buildings and what to do about it? Check out the following resources.
Is something missing? Share your resources for embodied carbon with Caitlin Hart at [email protected] to add them to the list.
Embodied Carbon 101—Video Archive
View all sessions from our Embodied Carbon 101 series here.
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- 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
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)
