The Charles Pankow Foundation recently released guidance to building owners, developers, designers and contractors interested in considering the embodied carbon in mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. The three reports, which address commercial office buildings and tenant improvement projects in the Pacific Northwest, are part of a broader $155,000 study for calculating embodied carbon in construction.
The rationale is that MEP and TI are often replaced every 10 to 20 years, and the accumulated carbon impacts can be significant, according to the reports’ principal investigators, who are leading the broader Pankow study, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for Low Carbon Construction.
