COVE Software reviews

Our firm is successfully using Cove.tool. It is powerful, fast and flexible. And perhaps most importantly, it is constantly evolving and adding new tools. For embodied carbon, there are ways to use the Optimize tab to evaluate the tradeoffs of assemblies, however at this time a fully developed embodied carbon tool is not yet available but I expect it will be soon. I know that a more direct link to EC3 is in the works and soon I believe you will be able to access EC3 data directly from within Cove.too. As you know, evaluating embodied carbon in buildings is an evolving field and currently best suited to processes where detailed material quantities are available. Cove.tool with it’s focus on early phase (most impactful) decision making has a difficult task ahead to extrapolate all these inputs, options and quantities based on the information available in a typical conceptual building model and then give us information in a way that is transparent enough to inspire confidence yet streamlined enough that almost anyone can effectively use it. Either way, Cove.tool pays for itself the first time you use it and once you are up to speed on how to use it, every project will benefit, even the ones with clients who can’t or won’t pay for climate and energy optimization of buildings. I give it many enthusiastic thumbs up.