As environmental sustainability becomes an increasingly hot topic in the run-up to Net Zero, the construction industry is also falling under pressure to reduce its carbon emissions, fast. Fortunately, there are tools available to help engineers and contractors deliver on this greener future, such as Tekla’s Embodied Carbon Calculator.
It’s clear that there has been (and continues to be) a big push on the ‘building green’ approach, featuring heavily on the agenda of many governments', as well as being a recurring concern amongst clients and developers. In fact, more and more people are showing an invested interest in understanding the life-cycle performance of their building, its embodied carbon output, and, most importantly, how this value can be reduced.
Defined as being all the CO2 emitted in producing materials, a building’s embodied carbon value can include all emissions from all construction products, the construction process itself, the building’s lifespan, and its end of life. In order to achieve the aspiration of ‘building green’, you first need to be able to assess, analyze and evaluate the embodied carbon within a building or structure at the initial design stage. Only then can you make more informed and engineered decisions about its delivery.
It is here that digital technology and the latest developments within the BIM software industry can help, such as the new Embodied Carbon Assessment tool from Trimble.
Available within Tekla Structural Designer and Tekla Structures, the calculator works directly in conjunction with the existing 3D modeling and engineering software. The Embodied Carbon Calculator also offers export options to One Click Life Cycle Analysis, the construction life-cycle metrics software.
