Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has teamed up with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to create digital tools for airports to estimate the embodied carbon in new structures.
Developed by architects, airport planners, structural engineers, and carbon experts, the tools can be used for new terminal buildings, runways, and multi-storey car parks to help development teams understand and mitigate their carbon footprints.
Atkins and IATA said they’re the first early-stage embodied carbon assessment tools specifically for airports. Most current tools measure carbon in general buildings, and at a later stage in the design, they said.
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