The Embodied Carbon Benchmark Report

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🔬研究者:Provides empirically grounded benchmarks for validating LCA models and tracking decarbonization progress in the building sector.

🏢実務担当者:Offers design teams and contractors reference values to set embodied carbon targets and select low-carbon materials.

🏛政策担当者:Supports development of building codes, procurement policies, and carbon pricing mechanisms for the construction industry.

The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector has a major role to play in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of the built environment. Much of the near-term impact of buildings will be from embodied carbon due to the imminent timing and scale of embodied emissions. Given this opportunity, gauging the typical magnitude of the embodied carbon of buildings is a critical step to understanding current building practices and mapping a pathway towards reduction.In this report, we fill a critical gap within the design and construction industry by providing bottom-up, empirically derived embodied carbon benchmarks for buildings in the US and Canada to aid in the development of WBLCA policies and programs. Additionally, we explored drivers and trends of the embodied carbon impacts of buildings across multiple project features to increase knowledge in the industry and inform building decarbonization efforts. All of this was done using one of the richest and most methodologically consistent datasets of WBLCA results currently available for North America. Thus, the benchmarks and findings from this report provide greater consistency and reliability than previous studies and offer clearer and more actionable pathways to industry-wide decarbonization.

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