What Does Material Transparency Look Like Today
Our built spaces have a significant impact on climate change ? in fact, the building and construction industry is responsible for nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In Canada, specifically, homes and buildings account for 18% of national GHG emissions. Â
Centennial College-Progress Campus, rendering courtesy of DIALOG
While these emissions might typically be associated with operational carbon, or the GHGs emitted during the use of a building, like electricity and natural gas, it?s the embodied carbon emissions that architects and building professionals also need to focus on. Â
Embodied carbon is the carbon footprint of a material and considers all GHGs emitted throughout the product?s supply chain, installation, use, replacement and end-of-life disposal. It also may represent 90% of total building-related emissions by 2050 if the industry keeps moving toward net-zero operating carbon but does not address embodied carbon.   To effectively reduce embodied carbon emissions, building industry professionals, including architects and designers, must prioritize low-carbon material procurement for their projects. And to do this, product manufacturers and suppliers can invest in transparency efforts to help provide visibility into the footprint of materials and products.  Â
Luckily, there are tools and resources available today for this to happen, but it has been a long road to get to the level of material transparency we have today. Â
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