(D03) The [Carbon] A Team - Tying it all together from A1-A5

Though upfront embodied carbon of construction materials (A1-A3 emissions) has come into the limelight in recent years, the embodied carbon impact of transportation (A4) and construction phase (A5) activities is often not prioritized as an impactful path to reducing overall embodied carbon in buildings. The oft-cited reason tends to revolve around a lack of available data needed to both: 1) track these impacts, and 2) quantify their relative importance in the overall carbon footprint of projects.

How can contractors, owners, and construction technology providers work together to align methodology for tracking A4 and A5 emissions and contextualize these impacts in such a way that facilitates meaningful progress toward sustainability goals?

This session will demonstrate how engaging cross-disciplinary project stakeholders can enable better alignment and insights from the variable models and datasets used to track the full scope of upfront embodied carbon (A1-A5) throughout design and engineering, into procurement, and finally construction.