Cross-industry project introduces low-carbon focused agreement

The Climate Smart Buildings Alliance, a collaboration between EllisDon, RBC, and Mattamy Homes, has unveiled the Responsible Buildings Pact to promote the use of low carbon materials in construction.

The Responsible Buildings Pact is an open, voluntary, industry-wide agreement for any developers, consultants, contractors, and supporters interested in reducing the embodied carbon of the buildings they create. By joining the pact, companies will commit to three core elements:

• Remaining educated on lower carbon materials.
• Establishing an internal process to evaluate whether lower carbon materials or design strategies can be used.
• Reporting publicly on the results of their evaluation process and evaluations publicly and identifying the ability to use lower carbon materials.

Buildings are responsible for approximately one-third of all carbon emissions. The technology exists now to potentially reduce the embodied portion of those emissions by approximately 40 per cent.