Empowering the built environment to quantify, measure & reduce embodied carbon.  

 

Buildings represent a staggering 39% of global greenhouse gas emissions and account for 36% of the world’s energy demand. As a massive consumer of raw materials and natural resources and a significant contributor to carbon emissions, the engineering and construction sector has a crucial role to play in combatting climate change.

Until recently, the construction industry’s response to reducing building-related emissions has focused on energy efficiency by reducing operational emissions - the energy used to heat, cool and light buildings. This approach, however, overlooks embodied carbon emissions found in the material and construction processes across a building’s lifecycle, which represents a quarter of the carbon emitted during the life of a building and 11% of all global carbon emissions.

It is critical that efforts increase to quantify, monitor, evaluate and ultimately reduce the embodied carbon emitted throughout the life of a building.

With RIB Carbon Quantifier and through a seamless connection to this data, industry professionals will be able to effectively quantify and measure carbon, facilitating better design and procurement decisions to help the global AEC industry in achieving a lower embodied carbon footprint.