About BuildingScope:

BuildingScope is a web-based software tool for easy modeling and interactive analysis of life-cycle energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in building construction and operation. BuildingScope can be used to quantify and optimize carbon footprints based on a full life-cycle modeling of buildings.

BuildingScope is packaged with an extensive life cycle inventory (LCI) database covering a broad range of building construction materials, transport models, energy sources, and domestic/international emission factors (including accurate electricity emission factors by grid region and country). BuildingScope also provides automatic domestic/international transport distance calculations.

The modeling and analysis include these key features:

• Energy use and GHG emissions in the construction phase -- including materials, freight transport, energy, and water used to produce modular components, assemblies and entire buildings.
• Carbon emissions and sequestration due to land-use changes at the building site.
• Solid waste and wastewater generated during construction and at end of life.
• Energy and water used and wastewater generated during the operational phase of buildings.
• Time-delayed GHG emissions and time-based carbon storage in building life cycles.
• Powerful hierarchical modeling capability, allowing users to efficiently construct and reuse custom model elements such as material combinations, components, assemblies, etc.