Avoids the labor and errors involved in manually entering data into a carbon estimation tool. Helps you identify the critical areas where the largest embodied carbon savings are available Enables visualizations and reports that are easier to line up with other construction documents. ...
Infrastructure engineering software company Bentley Systems has greatly extended its fight against climate change by integrating the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) into their iTwin platform. iTwin is Bentley’s open platform that provides the foundation for building SaaS solutions that ...
Analyze the Embodied Carbon of your project. EC3 attempts to determine the type of material from data in ACC. It will be about 80% accurate, but you will need to check each material. Check or enter the area, floors, and use of your building. This will allow you to make reasonable c...
“Microsoft was the first large corporate user of the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator and is piloting the tool (hosted in Microsoft Azure) on its 17-building redevelopment project at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, targeting an embodied carbon reduction of...
s role in climate change. EC3 allows benchmarking, assessment and reductions in embodied carbon, focused on the upfront supply chain emissions of construction materials. The EC3 tool uses building material quantities from construction estimates and/or BIM models and a robust database of digital, ...