Archinect - News2024-05-18T21:41:34-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150356402/som-introduces-whole-life-carbon-accounting-service-for-developers-and-design-professionals
SOM introduces Whole Life Carbon Accounting service for developers and design professionals Josh Niland2023-07-12T12:20:00-04:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e7/e70401e1b881f4a2f647ea70b888e9be.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A new Whole Life Carbon Accounting service from <a href="https://archinect.com/skidmoreowingsmerrill" target="_blank">Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)</a> was unveiled last month in an effort to help building owners and developers make accurate decisions about <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1249778/building-performance" target="_blank">building performance</a> at all stages of the design phase while pushing the industry further toward a much-needed reduced carbon future. </p>
<p>The service was created by the firm’s sustainability team and targets the important early-stage embodied carbon emissions of a building, offering a consolidation of disparate carbon assessments that can lead to drastic miscalculations of emissions on projects in between their initial design and completed construction. </p>
<p>“[The] gaps between traditional assessments and a building’s true performance can lead to a performance gap of up to five times more energy use and/or carbon emissions between predicted and actual values. Our service puts an end to this,” SOM’s Sustainability Director, Mina Hasman, explained via a press announcement.</p>
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