Buildings, Construction, Embodied Carbon
Circular Ecology Support the Launch of the Built Environment Carbon Database (BECD)
Oct
The Built Environment Carbon Database (BECD) is envisioned to become the main source of carbon estimating and benchmarking for the UK construction sector and a practical instrument to support the decarbonisation of the built environment. The database has been developed to collect and supply product data and entity level data to the industry through its own portal and by interacting with existing databases and software solutions.
Circular Ecology supported BCIS to launch the BECD Database for Products, helping to curate the data within the platform. At launch, the database contained product level data for over 34,000 materials and products. The primary data source was Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), which are now available in digital formats. The primary data sources were Eco-portal and EC3. Circular Ecology were commissioned by BCIS to develop the data within the product level entity. BCIS are also sponsoring an update to the ICE Database, where the data contained with BECD is now a key data source.
The BECD product level entity, can be viewed here
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