Prometheus Materials, DOE labs team on carbon removal accounting

Sources: Prometheus Materials, Longmont, Colo.; CP staff The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is providing $10 million to a private/public team tasked with establishing methods for measuring, reporting and verifying carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and sequestration in cement and concrete. The agency’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will team with Prometheus Materials,…

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Feds fund project to integrate carbon metrics in building material databases

Researchers at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, have been awarded a $600,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop measurement and assessment tools to be integrated with building material databases and architectural design software to provide real-time, “on-the-fly” carbon footprint metrics.

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