Sustainability & Performance
What is Embodied Carbon?
Embodied carbon is the greenhouse gas emitted producing, transporting, and installing building materials: the carbon 'baked in' before the building operates a single day. As operational energy gets cleaner, embodied carbon becomes the dominant share of a building's lifetime footprint.
In practice
Teams measure it by attaching emission factors (from EPDs) to quantities, then reduce it through material choices: lower-carbon concrete mixes, mass timber, reuse. Estimating tools increasingly report carbon next to cost from the same takeoff.
Tools for Embodied Carbon
Sterling
SaaS preconstruction platform unifying 2D/3D takeoff, resource-based cost estimating and embodied carbon in a single workflow.
Concrete AI
Machine learning optimizes concrete mix designs to cut cost and embodied carbon while meeting performance specs.
One Click LCA
Fast embodied carbon and LCA for buildings, integrates with Revit and more
2050 Materials
2050 Materials is a digital platform for the AEC industry to explore, compare and source sustainable building materials, with an API for integrating real-time climate impact data.
Cove.tool
Web-based software for analyzing, drawing, load modeling, and connecting data for building design and construction.
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