Balfour Beatty is to introduce a new carbon calculation tool that it claims can offer embodied carbon savings of up to 14% through better design choices.
Currently in its beta testing phase on four Balfour sites, the AutoBIM Carbon Calculator automatically links BIM data to embodied carbon data from the Inventory of Carbon and Energy database, an online source that provides energy and embodied carbon information for construction materials.
In addition, the calculator also allows users to input information from environmental product declarations sheets, verified and registered documents that provide transparent and comparable data about the environmental impact throughout the lifecycle of a product or material.
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