Part 3: Data & carbon calculator tools – What, why and how?
Join us as we explore how this once mostly academic community and under-funded technology vertical is now challenged with figuring out how to rapidly and credibly scale to meet the demand for education, resources and solutions.
Not that long ago these acronyms were only recognizable to a very few practitioners in a niche industry. Now that decarbonization has practically become a household word, there may only be a few people left in the global building & construction industry that haven't heard something about how these tools are powering big changes in the way things are getting funded, designed and built.
Join us for this crash session to learn about
- Why it's critical that product category rules (PCR) all get created the same way
- Using PCRs to create life cycle assessments (LCA) and environmental product declarations (EPD)
- The difference between ‘generic’ environmental impact data vs. data from industry-wide and product-specific EPDs
- Which environmental impact data are appropriate for which building design phase
- Tools survey; which datasets and data types are used in common carbon calculator tools
- How has access to, and amount of, generic and product-specific data grown in the past 5 years
- The role digitization and standardization of data has played in the growth, accessiblity and use of environmental impact data in design, procurement and policy
- How the data ecosystem for whole life carbon assessments will continue to evolve
Who should attend?
- Design & construction industry professionals
- MFRs who have created, or will be creating, EPDs
- Industry organization leadership considering creating PCRs
- LCA practitioners
- Providers of PCR, LCA and EPD verification services
Watch Part 1: PCRs – What, why and how?
Watch Part 2: LCAs and EPDs – What, why and how?
