Enables Embodied Carbon Calculation, Reporting,
and Analysis in Infrastructure Digital Twins at No Cost
Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure
engineering software company, announced today at COP27 expanded
integrated workflows for embodied carbon calculation in the Bentley
iTwin platform. The new integration enables carbon assessment in
infrastructure digital twin solutions, empowered by the Embodied
Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3). Developed by the nonprofit
Building Transparency, EC3 is a no-cost, open-access tool that
allows benchmarking, assessment, and reductions in embodied carbon,
focused on the upfront supply chain emissions of construction
materials. Building Transparency provides the education, resources,
and tools – including EC3 – to address embodied carbon’s role in
climate change. The EC3 tool and its subsequent effect on the
industry are driving demand for low-carbon solutions and
incentivizing construction material manufacturers and suppliers to
invest in disclosure, transparency, and material innovations that
reduce the carbon emissions of their products.
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Mapping/Grouping; Exporting quantities to
EC3 from an infrastructure digital twin (via the Bentley iTwin
platform). Image courtesy of Bentley Systems.
Rodrigo Fernandes, Bentley’s director of ES(D)G – empowering
sustainable development goals, said, “This new integration in
Bentley’s infrastructure digital twin platform exemplifies our
strategy for empowering our users to achieve sustainable
development goals. EC3 from Building Transparency is a perfect
example of purpose-driven open, ecosystem collaboration, by which
the private sector can come together to support and accelerate
climate action.”
Stacy Smedley, executive director of Building Transparency,
said, “We are excited to now be part of the Bentley iTwin platform
ecosystem. It is great that the integration is built upon an
open-source framework – foundational for both EC3 and the iTwin
platform. We see this integrated workflow as a significant
opportunity for AEC companies, ISVs, and digital integrators to
link carbon analysis to infrastructure digital twins while ensuring
complete control of their data, applications, and IP.”
The EC3 integration allows Bentley’s infrastructure digital twin
solutions, powered by iTwin, and third-party applications built on
the Bentley iTwin platform, to simplify and accelerate the
generation of carbon reporting and insights based on the no-cost,
open-source EC3 carbon database and calculator. The Bentley iTwin
platform is an open, scalable, platform-as-a-service offering that
enables developers to create and bring to market solutions that
solve real infrastructure problems by leveraging digital twins.
Kaustubh Page, director of product management, iTwin platform
for Bentley Systems, said, “We see the EC3 integration as a
critical feature for the Bentley iTwin platform, further driving us
toward the sustainability vision for the platform. We are delighted
to see our users taking advantage of our Carbon Calculation Service
on the Bentley iTwin platform to achieve carbon workflows such as
reporting, project optioneering, and optimizing material selection.
We are glad to integrate an additional lifecycle assessment tool to
unlock decarbonization workflows.”
“Microsoft was the first large corporate user of the Embodied
Carbon in Construction Calculator and is piloting the tool (hosted
in Microsoft Azure) on its 17-building redevelopment project at its
headquarters in Redmond, Wash., targeting an embodied carbon
reduction of 30%. We are proud to be one of the early supporters of
EC3, and, simultaneously, strategic partners of Bentley Systems,”
said Katie Ross, global sustainability lead for real estate and
facilities at Microsoft. “Seeing the EC3 tool and the Bentley iTwin
platform converging is a great example of how we aim to accelerate
sustainability through collaboration and demonstrates the power of
data democratization.”
Designers and sustainability engineers in the architectural,
engineering, and construction industry spend a significant amount
of time assessing or reporting on the environmental footprint of
infrastructure projects, mainly when manually exporting and
aggregating data from quantity counts and bills of materials. It
can also be error-prone, requiring additional verification of
successful ingestion by carbon tools. Moreover, AEC professionals
do not want to be locked into one single carbon calculator as
different calculators may provide different results (for instance,
due to uncertainties in environmental product declarations), and
carbon reporting and certification requirements differ as a
function of the project, country, or infrastructure owner.
The added integration with EC3 not only creates time savings
with improved accuracy but also provides uncertainty estimations of
the EPD data and increases carbon transparency due to Building
Transparency’s open-source/open-access strategy. Users can
incorporate engineering data created by various design tools into a
single view using the Bentley iTwin platform, generate a unified
report of materials and quantities, and share it with different
carbon analysis tools – now also with EC3 – via cloud
synchronization.
One of the mutual users interested in this new integration is
WSP, applying both the EC3 database and the Bentley iTwin platform
on infrastructure projects such as the Interstate Bridge
Replacement program. “For WSP, carbon footprint analysis and
reduction are imperative in planning, designing, building, and
operating an infrastructure project from beginning to end,” said
Thomas Coleman, vice president of WSP USA. “Enabling better iTwin
integration with EC3 is game-changing for us on multiple
infrastructure projects. Implementing this link will significantly
reduce the time and cost of generating EC3-based detailed embodied
carbon analysis and reports along the design and construction
stages. Ultimately, in the long run, we see this collaboration as
one more step toward open, evergreen infrastructure digital twins,
where carbon calculation and optimization are intrinsic and
transparent in all infrastructure lifecycle stages across the
entire value chain.”
Image: Caption: Mapping/Grouping; Exporting
quantities to EC3 from an infrastructure digital twin (via the
Bentley iTwin platform). Image courtesy of Bentley Systems.
Video: Carbon Calculation Example Caption:
Demonstration of carbon calculation with EC3 iTwin platform
integration. Video courtesy of Bentley Systems.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering
software company. We provide innovative software to advance the
world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and
environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by
professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design,
construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and
transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities,
buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Our
offerings include MicroStation-based applications for modeling and
simulation, ProjectWise for project delivery, AssetWise for asset
and network performance, Seequent’s leading geoprofessional
software portfolio, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure
digital twins. Bentley Systems employs more than 4,500 colleagues
and generates annual revenues of approximately $1 billion in 186
countries. www.bentley.com
About Building Transparency
Building Transparency is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that
provides open-access data and tools that support broad and swift
action across the building industry in addressing embodied carbon’s
role in climate change. Formed in 2020, Building Transparency
hosts, manages, and maintains the Embodied Carbon in Construction
Calculator (EC3) tool, which provides thousands of digitized EPDs
in a free, open-source database, and tallyLCA, the nonprofit’s life
cycle assessment tool. Building Transparency strives to provide the
resources and education necessary to shape a better building future
through promoting the adoption of the EC3 tool and tallyLCA,
establishing the official materialsCAN and ownersCAN programs, and
working with global policymakers.
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Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect
wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are
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