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At last month’s Global Climate Action Summit, Microsoft announced it is the first large corporate user of a new tool to track carbon emissions associated with raw building materials.

Florence rainfall hits towns still recovering from record Hurricane Matthew flooding

While widely accepted in Europe, designers and builders in the U.S. have struggled to take full advantage of mass timber because of current limitations in prescriptive codes.

Santa Monica takes a high dive into deep sustainability waters in thirsty Southern California

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.

Now a tropical depression with heavy rainfall, storm slows to a crawl and builds significant flood risk across Carolinas and SW Virginia; power still out for 450,000 Duke Energy customers.

The market for sustainable buildings continues to grow, but the industry now has many more standards to choose from.

A necessary baby step toward the ambitious goal involving net-zero embodied carbon and operational greenhouse gas emissions.