Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, announced the general availability of new carbon analysis capabilities in iTwin Experience to assess and mitigate the impact of carbon emissions on more sustainable infrastructure. With the new carbon analysis capabilities, infrastructure engineers can streamline CO2 reporting, easily visualize gray carbon emissions, and quickly explore alternatives for better designs.
Gray carbon emissions are the carbon footprint of a facility prior to construction, that is, the greenhouse gases emitted during the construction process. Bentley’s carbon analysis capabilities enable a comprehensive assessment of a project’s carbon footprint, from the extraction of raw materials to the moment it leaves the manufacturing site—the largest sources of gray carbon emissions.
“ By 2050, grey carbon emissions associated with new infrastructure are expected to account for half of the world’s carbon footprint – even before the infrastructure is used,” added Savina Carluccio, Executive Director of the International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI). “ Given its significant contribution to global emissions, the sector must act urgently to reduce grey carbon emissions at scale and as part of broader decarbonisation and climate action efforts – from leveraging a highly connected and collaborative value chain to using new digital technologies to enable the selection and use of alternative, carbon-efficient materials in sustainable infrastructure projects.”
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Bentley’s new carbon analysis capabilities seamlessly integrate a user’s design data with the user’s chosen carbon assessment tool. This allows infrastructure professionals to link carbon footprints directly to their design decisions and see how these impacts change dynamically across different design iterations.
“ Carbon assessments should be standard practice for global infrastructure projects, but reporting carbon is not easy,” said Chris Bradshaw, director of sustainability at Bentley Systems. “ Using Bentley’s new carbon analysis capabilities will help transform the laborious task of carbon reporting into a smooth, automated process, enabling infrastructure professionals to gain greater insight into carbon impacts and design sustainable infrastructure more quickly and easily.”
Creating a carbon analysis report is typically highly manual, time-consuming, and expensive, and involves multiple steps: organizing siloed data, transforming the data into carbon metrics, and producing a final report. The process is even more challenging for large, complex infrastructure projects, which typically involve multiple stakeholders, datasets, data formats, and construction materials.
Bentley’s new carbon analysis capabilities help address these challenges by providing:
- Automated Material Quantification: Automatically ingest and aggregate design and facility data, files, and models created with Bentley software and other sources into a digital twin that provides a single, simplified view. By intelligently grouping common design elements and utilizing integrated workflows, missing material volumes and quantities in design files can be automatically calculated, eliminating the need for outdated estimates and spreadsheets.
- Easy reporting at any time: With just a click of the mouse, integration with the user’s chosen carbon footprint calculator means a comprehensive and highly accurate carbon footprint can be generated in minutes. Because all data is stored dynamically, users can adjust material selection throughout the life of a project, creating a simple and repeatable process.
SOURCE: Businesswire