With the increasing awareness of the embodied carbon impact of the built environment on global warming potential, a variety of tools and resources have emerged in the marketplace.

Unlike operational carbon, which can be reduced throughout a building’s lifetime, embodied carbon is locked in as soon as a building is constructed. As such, tracking embodied carbon is critical

As the building design and construction industry adopts a more holistic and comprehensive approach to assessing materials and resources for environmental impact, interest in life-cycle assessments has risen and the market has become saturated with transparency documentation such as EPDs.

A massive report on climate change, the Fourth National Climate Assessment, published in November, emphasizes the threats posed by climate change and the impacts U.S. residents will see if no action is taken

Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance publishes updates to ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Product Declarations for spray polyurethane foam insulation and roofing.

The industry has lacked an easily-accessible platform for whole-building life cycle assessment – a tool that could integrate into a design team’s workflow and not require esoteric knowledge. This is starting to change.

Tools are now available to better understand products being specifying

The AAMA heard from a number of speakers and presenters focused on green building topics and sustainability.

The EPD provides vital environmental performance information addressing energy consumption, water consumption, global warming, waste, air emissions and other metrics related to production.