everything we build has a climate impact whether it's operational carbon from using the building or embodied carbon from creating and installing the materials to construct the building while operational carbon could be mitigated over time with Energy Efficiency measures embodied carbon emissions cannot they are locked in place once the structure is built embodied carbon resulting from building an infrastructure materials and construction accounts for at least 13 percent of global carbon emission
s each year and with a predicted 2.5 trillion square feet of new construction globally by 2060 many in the industry are committed to achieving ambitious goals for reducing their total carbon footprint to reduce embodied carbon of the built environment Architects engineers and contractors need to be able to make informed decisions about the materials they use on their projects balancing cost performance and climate impact that's why Autodesk construction cloud integrates with the EC3 tool Autodes
k takeoff users can export their 2D and 3D material quantities to EC3 a free and open source platform that allows you to view and compare embodied carbon data of different building materials after enabling the EC3 for Autodesk construction Cloud application and logging in to EC3 users can import 2D and 3D material takeoffs and select and compare the carbon emissions of the proposed building materials pulling embodied carbon data from environmental product declarations EC3 compares the embodied c
arbon intensity of different locally available materials that all meet the stated design performance specifications updates to quantities created in Autodesk takeoff can be synced to EC3 as well letting project teams continue to make informed decisions as the project evolves after selecting potential materials generate detailed summary reports and save them directly to Autodesk docs the centralized document management solution within Autodesk construction Cloud use extensive reports to help owne
rs and designers choose the combination of materials to best support the project in reducing its carbon footprint connecting carbon data with quality takeoffs and cost estimation workflows is an opportunity to reduce carbon emissions of construction projects and decarbonize the built environment toward a better world for all [Music]
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