November 2023
By Lori Ferriss, Erin McDade, and Larry Strain. Featured in Architect.
Imagine a world in which we consciously care for and improve the buildings we already have as a lever for climate action. Architecture 2030’s CARE Tool, which allows stakeholders to estimate the embodied, operating, and avoided carbon impacts of reusing and upgrading existing buildings compared to replacing them with new construction, aims to realize that world. While currently designed to analyze single building projects, the CARE Tool can also support research into the potential impact of strategic reuse at a building portfolio, campus, or entire jurisdiction level…
