The Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program is trying to identify best practices to reduce embodied carbon in building structures. SE 2050 is especially focused on ensuring consistency in the global-warming-potential background data of the projects submitted to the program’s database. The data will eventually be used to set industry benchmarks for calculating and comparing the carbon content of different structural systems.
“We know there are inconsistencies in the data we are collecting,” says Mike Gryniuk, a principal at LeMessurier and chair of the two-year-old SE 2050 program, which is part of the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers.