Towards embodied carbon benchmarks for buildings in Europe - #2 Setting the baseline: A bottom-up approach

Embodied Carbon in the Building Sector

A new study, 'Towards embodied carbon benchmarks for buildings in Europe', by Ramboll, in collaboration with leading researchers from Aalborg University Build and KU Leuven sets out a framework for benchmarking and limiting the embodied carbon of new buildings.

The study identifies solutions to measure embodied carbon emissions, define carbon budgets and targets. Importantly it includes recommendations for a baseline of current embodied carbon levels in new buildings, as well as considerations of the available carbon budget for these emissions. This will form the basis of a performance system in the shape of benchmarks for the reduction of embodied carbon.

Download the reports

• #1 Facing the data challenge (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6120522)
• #2 Setting the baseline. A bottom-up approach (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5895051)
• #3 Defining budget-based targets. A top-down approach (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6120882)
• #4 Bridging the embodied carbon performance gap (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6120874)
• Summary report  - The important takeaways in short (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6397514)

Learn more

To learn more about the study and download the reports from the study, go to our Embodied Carbon in the Building Sector website (https://c.ramboll.com/lets-reduce-embodied-carbon)

Data and code availability
The data compiled, processed and analysed in this study as well as the scripts used for the processing, analysis and visualisations are available in the related GitHub repository (https://github.com/mroeck/Embodied-Carbon-of-European-Buildings-Database)