PFI (MCA): Embodied Carbon Emission and Environmental Impact from Built Environment

这个创新伙伴关系-中期职业发展（PFI-MCA）项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力解决了与建筑物的环境影响和碳足迹相关的社会和教育问题。在社会一级，拟议的综合框架满足了对建筑环境内含碳和环境影响评估的需要。通过整合不同的模型来评估隐含碳/环境影响减少的缓解效果，该方法使公共政策和社会经济影响的工程分析成为可能。在教育层面，该项目将支持代表性不足的本科生和研究生团队成员。该项目中产生的知识将被转化为体验式教育模块，这些模块将被整合到圣母大学Keough全球事务学院集成实验室提供的核心课程中。这些模块旨在教授，培训和激励下一代从事可持续设计和建筑的设计领导者。拟议的项目是开发一个综合的生态技术框架，并创建一个仪表板（BUILT 4CLIMATE），以直观地显示美国邮政编码级别的建筑存量的碳排放和相关环境影响。通过将两个详细的评估-建筑信息建模（BIM）和生命周期评估（LCA）-在单个建筑物层面上联系起来，我们可以扩大结果，以模拟整个建筑物的动态。在美国，由于缺乏方法、建筑物层面的数据和基准，对建筑物的隐含碳影响缺乏了解。为了解决这一知识差距，我们的项目提供了几个智力优势。首先，拟议的综合框架将提供一个全面的、定量的方法，重点关注隐含碳及其相关的环境影响。第二，建立国家建筑存量数据库将大大提高现有经验数据的质量和数量。第三，在更细粒度的县一级绘制国家建筑存量的碳排放图，将为政策制定者和监管机构提供对热点的可靠见解，并有助于比较不同的发展战略。此外，该项目将在全国范围内建立各种建筑类型的生命周期体现性能的基准。最后，BIM和LCA流程的自动化将提高基准测试的准确性和速度。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation – Mid Career Advancement (PFI-MCA) project addresses societal and educational aspects related to the Environmental Impact and Carbon Footprint of Buildings. At the societal level, the proposed integrated framework addresses the need for built environment embodied carbon and environmental impact assessments. By integrating different models to assess mitigation effectiveness of embodied carbon / environmental impact reduction, the approach enables the engineering analysis of public policies and socio-economic impacts. At the educational level, the project will support both underrepresented undergraduate and graduate team members. The knowledge generated in the project will be translated into experiential education modules that will be integrated into the core courses offered at The Keough School of Global Affairs Integration Lab at the University of Notre Dame. The modules aim to teach, train, and inspire the next generation’s design leaders who are engaged in sustainable design and construction. The proposed project is to develop an integrated ecological-technological framework and create a dashboard (BUILT4CLIMATE) to visualize the embodied carbon emission and related environmental impact from the building stock in the United States at the zip code level. By linking two detailed assessments—building information modeling (BIM) and life cycle assessment (LCA)—at the individual building level, we can scale up the results to model the dynamic of the entire building stock. In the United States, the lack of knowledge regarding a building’s embodied carbon impact exists at the whole-building level due to the lack of methodology, building-level data and benchmarks. To address this knowledge gap, our project offers several intellectual merits. Firstly, the proposed integrated framework will provide a comprehensive, quantitative approach to focus on embodied carbon and its associated environmental impacts. Secondly, the creation of a national building stock database will significantly enhance the quality and quantity of empirical data available. Thirdly, mapping carbon emissions from the national building stock at a more granular county level will offer policymakers and regulators reliable insights into hot spots and aid in comparing different development strategies. Additionally, this project will establish benchmarks for life cycle embodied performance across various building types at a national scale. Lastly, automating the BIM and LCA processes will improve the accuracy and speed of benchmarking.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.