Driving sustainability in construction together
The climate challenge demands immediate attention and long-term commitment. We are proud of the work of our MTWO Construction Cloud partner, RIB Software, and its commitment to helping builders construct more sustainably. recently announced a new partnership with recently announced. This non-profit organization has developed an open access technological tool targeting the reduction and impact of embodied carbon as part of the effort to make the AEC industry more efficient and sustainable.
The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) from Building Transparency maintains a database of digital, third-party verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), which can be used to perform sustainability benchmarking and assessments.
This is useful to construction material procurers, developers, contractors, and policymakers alike. Now that one can measure the amount of embodied carbon within production materials, stakeholders are empowered to evaluate a project’s overall carbon emissions and utilize that information to procure low-carbon material alternatives or, in the case of regulators, set embodied carbon limits. Such measures are particularly helpful in ensuring the AEC industry’s compliance and adherence to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) sustainable practices. Building Transparency’s EC3 tool remains free to use through sponsorships, such as that of RIB Software.