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Performance specs drive dematerialization strategy

Don Marsh

Building Transparency, the Seattle-based organization behind the environmental product declaration-fueled Embodied Carbon Calculator (EC3), raises a “less is more” premise for carbon emissions-minded architectural, engineering and construction professionals. Authors of its latest report, Manufacturers Guide to Embodied Carbon, frame “dematerialization” as a strategy where the lowest cost, lowest carbon footprint specification results from a design requiring less raw material per…

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CMHA, GCP join Embodied Carbon Calculator developer Building Transparency

Concrete News

Sources: Building Transparency, Seattle; CP staff The latest Lead or Pilot Partners supporting the nonprofit organization building the Embodied Carbon Calculator (EC3) represent a diverse set of manufacturers, suppliers, organizations or individual architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) entities fostering low-carbon public or private contract procurement. In addition to the Concrete Masonry and Hardscapes Association, GCP Applied Technologies and other new…

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Emissions calculator programmer EC3 releases embodied carbon primer

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Sources: Building Transparency, Seattle; CP staff The nonprofit organization behind the environmental product declaration data- and document-laden Embodied Carbon Calculator (EC3), has published a guide preparing manufacturers, producers and suppliers for the Buy Clean policies surfacing at federal, state and local agency levels. In Manufacturer’s Guide to Embodied Carbon, Building Transparency provides building carbon emissions accounting basics and steps for…

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Coalition programs Embodied Carbon Calculator for Greenbuild launch

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In partnership with 30-plus architectural, engineering and construction entities, the University of Washington-hosted Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) has scheduled release of the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator, or EC3, with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, November 19-22 in Atlanta. The open source tool will equip architects, engineers, owners, construction companies, building material suppliers and policy makers to compare and reduce construction materials’ embodied carbon emissions.

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