Quantification of climate change impacts of selected construction material supply chains

Research the existing stock of Environmental Product Declarations and underlying Product Category Rules in selected material categories including wood, steel, and glass. Evaluate the accuracy and comparability of the population, identify top sources of embodied carbon impact variation in the supply chain, and provide estimates of the sensitivity of the embodied carbon impact of those supply chain factors. Document these differences in formats that can be published and, incorporated into BuildingTransparency.org’s free EC3 software service, for which C Change Labs is the primary developer. BuildingTransparency.org is a Washington State 501c(3) not-for-profit focused on climate change impacts in construction.

Faculty Supervisor:

Qingshi Tu

Student:

Shiva Zargar Ershadi

Partner:

C Change Labs

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of British Columbia