New breed of accountants measure carbon footprint
January 20, 2010 | Length: 00:02:27
San Francisco based, Climate Earth has developed new software technology that measures and analyzes the carbon impact inside the supply chain, from the production of a carton of orange juice to the construction of a giant skyscraper. SmartPlanet talks to commercial builders, Webcor, about how they're using the technology to get a more detailed account of their carbon footprint during the construction process.
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http://www.iel.umn.edu/CEDA3_Users_Guide.pdf
It is not based on analyses from individual manufacturers and processors, apparently, but on macro scale examination of manufacturing and energy sectors. It can give a broad brush view of the energy input to various construction materials. Nothing new there. It would be nice to compare it to Athena or BEES. Looks like a slick company has taken data originally developed in Korea and used it to apply to specific industries, making it easy for the decision makers. Yes the data is out there, but as far as I know the average A/E (Architects & Engineers) does not apply it in normal design. So this may be a somewhat useful exercise.
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>> There's a new breed of accountants in the marketplace and they're not combing through your financial records, but rather your carbon footprint data. Meet Climate Earth. The company has developed software technology to measure, track and analyze the carbon being used in the production of 1000s of materials inside everything from a carton of orange juice to the construction of a giant sky scraper.
>> We've taken cutting edge carbon data base information and integrated that with sophisticated computer technology and that allows us to do a carbon footprint very quickly, very cost effectively and very accurately. One of Climate Earth's customers is Web Corp the commercial construction company responsible for building the California Academy of Sciences, one of the greenest structures in the US. Last year Web Corp teamed up with Climate Earth to help the company measure the carbon footprint embedded inside the structures it builds.
>> They give us the ability as experts in science and experts in carbon to give us the data we need to give the owners and architects the ability to select materials and or record the carbon before we build the building.
>> For instance now Web Corp can better measure the materials it uses and which ones will emit less carbon during the construction process.
>> It's the steel, it's the concrete, it's the envelope. It might be the drywall, it might be the glass, it might be the precast concrete, it might be the roofing material. Those are the kind of things that when you put them altogether they really start to matter. The 2 companies are now working together on the carbon analysis and construction of the new San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
>> The San Francisco PUC building wants to be what's called a 0 carbon building so the first thing we had to do to achieve that is understand how much carbon is produced from the time they put the first shovel in the ground until that building basically dissolves into the ground 100 years from now.
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>> Carbon accounting, making businesses more accountable for their environmental impact. For Smart Planet I'm Sui Das.
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