City of Vancouver LCA Embodied Carbon Guidelines

Building Materials, Carbon, Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

The City of Vancouver offers technical assistance on modeling embodied carbon to prove compliance with the city’s embodied requirements outlined in Section 10.4 of the VBBL passed in May 2022. This document can be referenced in other policies or programs to encourage the measuring or reducing of carbon, such as re-zoning policies.

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