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The purpose of this (beta version 1.0) calculator is to provide our clients and colleagues with a means to:
- Review an embodied carbon budget based on caps established by the proposed Toronto Green Standard’s 2024 80th percentile for a range of building typologies.
- Calculate a combined operational and embodied Carbon Budget relative to the project size and typology against, quality and performance target based on a 30yr. energy cost projection.
- Aim at understanding the relationship between the GWP (Global Warming Potential) of a range of building types and massing, with the 30yr. energy energy, cost and carbon impacts.
- The numbers generated in this calculator reflect our own practice only, and experience based on recently completed projects. Numbers generated here should not be taken as anything more than guidance from the perspective of one small architecture firm in Ontario, Canada. The uncertainty and lack of granular data around individual products means that aiming for a larger number based on a ‘Fermi’ estimate may ultimately be of more utility when a project is in the pre-design stage. We are working on determining a more accurate coefficient to represent the square-cube law of taller structures, for now, we are using a placeholder of x1/2 where x = number of stories.
Happy crunching!