Download the 2024 Low Carbon Concrete Report
This is not your typical report!
Thanks to the creativity of the team at Building Green, with leadership and guidance from the Boston Society for Architecture and the Boston/Northeast Hub of the Carbon Leadership Forum, you get to play a cooperative game to learn what we heard from over 100 participants across the industry including owners, architects, engineers, contractors, and ready mix suppliers.
The team persevered to bring everyone to the table and truly listen to each stakeholders' unique perspective. We hope you enjoy playing while learning!
How large are our embodied carbon emissions?
Globally, the building and construction sectors account for nearly 40% of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in constructing and operating buildings (including the impacts of upstream power generation). Current building codes address operating energy but do not typically address the impacts ‘embodied’ in building materials and products. However, more than half of all GHG emissions are related to materials management (including material extraction and manufacturing) when aggregated across industrial sectors. As building operations become more efficient, these embodied impacts related to producing building materials become increasingly significant.
What is CLF?
The Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) is accelerating the transformation of the building sector to radically reduce the embodied carbon in building materials and construction through collective action.
CLF pioneers research, creates resources, fosters cross-collaboration, and incubates member-led initiatives to bring embodied carbon emissions of buildings down to zero.
The CLF network is made up of architects, engineers, contractors, material suppliers, building owners, and policymakers who care about the future and are taking bold steps to decarbonize the built environment, with a keen focus on eliminating embodied carbon from buildings and infrastructure.
Currently, the network brings together 5000+ professionals from 2500+ companies, 75+ countries, and 1000+ cities around the world
Join the Online
CLF Community
The CLF Community online platform brings together thousands of professionals from across the building industry, from over 30 countries and 100 cities around the world.
As a member, you can interact with a global network of interdisciplinary experts, where you can post questions, find resources, connect with local hubs, join focus groups, to keep track of upcoming events.
To join the CLF Community online platform, become a member of CLF and and opt-in to join the online community when joining.
CLF Local Hubs
As the online CLF Community grows, Regional Hubs are springing up across the United States and Canada and beginning in Europe and Asia.
