After recently passing its first anniversary as a public company, the construction tech provider is stepping up efforts for its users to track greenhouse gas emissions in construction.

The free, open-source Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator is the first digital tool of its kind in North America

Climate activists engage in complicated maneuvers to reduce embodied carbon in buildings

Last week, at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft announced it is the first large corporate user of a new tool to track the carbon emissions of raw building materials. Microsoft is piloting the tool, called the Embodied Carbon Calculator for Construction or EC3, in the remodel of its 72-acre Seattle campus.