KL&A | Embodied Carbon & Sustainability

EMBODIED CARBON
& SUSTAINABILITY

Team Carbon

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KL&A's 10 Strategies for reduction

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Big Rocks First
Innovate
Reuse Buildings & Components
More Biogenic Materials
Less Cement
Long Life, Loose Fit
Cost Matters
Market Evolution & Incentives
Open-Source Effort

Collaboration is a key component to successfully reducing the environmental impact of our designs and construction.

Owners, architects, engineers, contractors, material suppliers, universities, industry organizations -

LET'S Collaborate

Team Carbon Services

KL&A is the nation's premier provider of Structural Life Cycle Assessment.

We offer Embodied Carbon Impact Reports, Structural Life Cycle Assessment, Embodied Carbon education, material salvage and deconstruction consulting, material stockpile management, concrete mix design consulting and mass timber design.
For more information or to get us involved in your project reach out to Alexis Feitel at teamcarbon@klaa.com.

KL&A's Comittment to Net Zero

KL&A was an early signatory to the SE2050 Challenge in 2020. The SE2050 Challenge is a structural engineering industry commitment to reduce embodied carbon in structures and construction to zero by 2050.

As part of our commitment, we have contributed Life Cycle Assessments to the SE2050 database and created our Embodied Carbon Action Plan, which can be downloaded below:

2022 Embodied Carbon Action Plan

2021 Embodied Carbon Action Plan

Platte Fifteen Life Cycle Assessment
Case Study

On behalf of Thinkwood and Woodworks, KL&A Engineers and Builders published a Life Cycle Assessment case study which illustrates the embodied carbon benefits of mass timber construction and its relationship to cost and speed of construction.

The full case study can be found here.