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dcarbon8, Founding member of the Construction Emissions Community of Practice (CECoP)
6th March 2008
dcarbon8, a founding member of the Construction Emissions Community of Practice (CECoP), organised and attended the first Symposium this week. The group is working towards understanding and quantifying the carbon emissions associated with the life cycle of a building. CECoP was created as an outcome of the Carbon Footprint Construction Summit in September 2007 where it was agreed that an inclusive group was needed to establish a common framework for measuring the embodied carbon footprint of buildings. The group is an inclusive community of consultant and academic organizations and consists of dcarbon8, Simons Group, Davis Langdon, Delta Simons (Environmental Consultancy), Total Flow and Lincoln University.
The group seeks to advance theoretical discussion in techniques and methodology, promote best practice in data collection, and support emissions monitoring and reporting in the construction industry. The core group invited other leading thinkers in this area and product manufacturers to a Symposium this week in order to discuss problems in data validity while assessing embodied carbon footprint of buildings. The CECoP presented the Carbon Lifecycle Evaluation Assimilation Framework, also know as Carbon LEAF, as a way of controlling the current problems with scope and accuracy in data collection and reduce the impact of uncertainty in footprint evaluation.
For more information about CECoP, please contact info@dcarbon8.com.