Benchmarks for Multiple Building Use Types and Stages

LCA Data & Tools
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The Colorado Embodied Carbon Collaborative (CECC) has completed a model that develops benchmarks for multiple building use types and stages. The initial information on our results can be accessed here. The purpose of these benchmarks is for the establishment of target embodied carbon intensity values for CECC.

We would appreciate your review of our results and welcome all feedback and questions.

Bob Redwine
CECC

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CECC has added some charts focusing on Multifamily-Wood for stages (A1-A3) and (A-C).

Bob Redwine
CECC

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Hi Bob, it’s great to have these types of studies to help create alignment. And benchmark vs baseline continues to be a confusing dimension of our target-setting efforts with clients.

We’ve found the targets established by SBTi for embodied carbon to be very helpful, especially considering the complexity of allocating nationally determined contributions for the Paris Agreement to the building-related parts of the transportation, industrial, and energy sectors.

Have you compared your work to these annual targets? I know they have much fewer building types, but I love that they are adjusting targets based on the country’s allocation of our remaining global emissions through 2050.

https://sciencebasedtargets.org/sectors/buildings

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Thanks Stuart. Yes, we compared our results to SBTi and I will post our results soon. In the meantime I have added some charts for Multifamily-Concrete here.