CSU project seeks to determine carbon impact of building designs

While working on his master’s degree in construction management at Colorado State University in 2010, Peter Means saw a trend where people wanted to know the total carbon footprint of the homes they were having built for them.

At that time, there was no easy way for a builder or architect to figure that out.

Means, who is coordinator of the Carbon Footprint Metric Research Team at CSU’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability, thought it would be great to develop an easy way for builders and architects to have carbon metrics at their fingertips when designing…