CARE Tool In The News

As Carl Elefante, former president of the American Institute of Architects, once said: “The greenest building is the one that already exists.” A powerful example of this comes from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga.: this school is making progress toward carbon neutrality by preserving and retrofitting its magnificent existing buildings.

Should it stay or should it go? From a carbon perspective, conventional wisdom says most buildings should stay. The CARE Tool backs that up with data.

Thanks to a new tool, architects and building professionals can accurately quantify the emissions savings of “reuse versus replacement.”

Op-ed: Reusing and retrofitting existing buildings is vital to achieving significant emissions reduction targets in the few years we have.