by Jbs081310 e3 — August 16, 2010—BSRIA, the U.K. organization of built environment experts, has announced a new industry project with the goal of creating an everyday design tool to facilitate carbon assessment. A collaborative team led by AEC3 U.K. is developing the Interoperable Carbon Assessment Toolkit or “iCAT” for embodied carbon calculations in order to enhance the design and lifecycle management of zero-carbon and low-impact buildings.
AEC3 UK is leading an expert academic and industry project team, including: the University of Northumbria, BSRIA, Faithful and Gould, RIBA Enterprises, Autodesk, and the University of Bath. The iCAT project is partly funded by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB).
Focusing on the early, feasibility and pre-design stages, iCAT will enable designers, cost consultants and their clients to minimize lifecycle carbon and economic costs through improved decision-making, says BSRIA.
iCAT will be available as an interoperable online tool, using data from the University of Bath’s Inventory of Carbon and Energy (ICE) database, along with other carbon embodiment and building modeling data from mainstream design and analysis tools.
For more information, see the BSRIA Web site.
