This then gives rise to embodied carbon emissions, which contribute to global warming and climate change. The energy data provides the energy consumed to make a building material. It contains data for over 200 materials, broken down into over 30 main material categories, such as: In total the ICE database has been downloaded by over 30,000 professionals from around the world and it appears in countless reports, journals, books, lectures, embodied energy and carbon footprint calculators, and more. Carbon emissions gives a better indicator of the contribution of that energy to global warming and climate change. Instead, embodied carbon has become the main metric. The data in the wider literature, which the ICE database relies upon, generally no longer reports the embodied energy of construction products. However, since 2019 embodied energy factors are no longer included. The ICE database original contained embodied energy and embodied carbon factors.
Our founder, Dr Craig Jones, created the ICE database in his former role as a researcher at the University of Bath whilst working for Professor Geoff Hammond, at the Sustainable Energy Research Team (SERT).
The Inventory of Carbon and Energy (also know as the ICE database) is an embodied carbon database for building materials which is available for free on this page.
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