Two guidance documents issued by Perkins&Will aim to help design professionals understand and implement regenerative design strategies. First, a compilation of alternatives to products—the firm calls it “The Switch List”—that have been linked to health and environmental hazards makes it easy to identify and specify potentially healthier building materials.
Second, an Embodied Carbon Benchmarking Report provides key insights into sources of embodied carbon across several building types, as well as practical suggestions for how to reduce a project’s emissions.
The report — which took two years to complete — analyzes the embodied carbon content of 89 built and under-construction projects in the U.S. and Canada. The sampling included 14 building types located in a variety of climate zones. All the projects were designed by Perkins&Will, giving the researchers unrestricted access to building material and construction data.
Read the full Embodied Carbon Benchmarking Report here.
