Decarbonized Construction

How government purchasing power can cut building material emissions before construction begins.

LEED v5 and BREEAM V7 now require embodied carbon measurement, closing a three-decade oversight.

Specifying the wrong heat pump kills all-electric buildings before they're built.

Electric construction equipment is growing six times faster than diesel, reshaping jobsites.

Regulators are finally cracking down on the embodied carbon locked into buildings before they open.

Measuring a building's carbon across its entire lifetime reveals hidden trade-offs.

Cement's chemistry locks in half its emissions; three proven strategies cut them now.

Studies find mass timber cuts embodied carbon 22 to 69 percent compared to concrete and steel.

New code allows mass timber up to 18 stories if you understand the rules.

Cleaner grids are shifting the carbon problem from building operations to the materials themselves.

Concrete and steel lock in most of a building's carbon before construction even begins.

The global market for all-electric commercial buildings hits $91.3 billion today.

Most construction teams lack the tools and data to track carbon emissions effectively.