The Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) has launched its Cost and Carbon Materials Database that can calculate cost and carbon values for more than 9,200 common building materials.

Hard data and robust benchmarks are needed for commercial offices to successfully address both embodied and operational carbon. That’s the key finding from a new British Council for Offices report.

The construction supply chain needs clarity on carbon measurement if net zero targets are to be achieved. That’s the key finding from a survey conducted by Balfour Beatty and the Supply Chain Sustainability School

Aecom is set to use carbon emissions analysis software on road projects to help develop more sustainable designs.

Zero, the carbon- and innovation-focused working group, is preparing a wiki-style playbook for net zero construction.

Turner & Townsend has launched an embodied carbon calculator that enables clients to evaluate the carbon footprint of projects from an early design stage through to practical completion of the construction process.

MPs have called for mandatory whole-life carbon assessments for buildings under construction, and crucially have suggested the RICS professional statement on whole-life carbon as the benchmark.

A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past seven days.

If the construction industry is meet the Net Zero challenge, it must over come its weakness: carbon reporting, according to Skanska UK head of environment David Mason.

Loughborough University scientists and multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy, Cundall, have created an AI system that can predict building emissions.