Last month architecture firm KieranTimberlake transferred Tally, its software for life cycle assessment (LCA), to Building Transparency—a non-profit whose goal is to enable broad-based and swift action to address the construction industry’s contribution to climate change. With this move, the tool will become free and open access. “The idea is to make Tally accessible to the entire building industry,” says Billie Faircloth, KieranTimberlake partner and research director.
Created in 2013 by the firm’s affiliate, KT Innovations, with Autodesk and Sphera (formerly Thinkstep), Tally is a plugin to Revit that allows users to run iterative analyses of material choices and assembly options, and compare their environmental impacts, including those that relate to land, air, and water. The design-stage tool also assesses embodied carbon—the carbon associated with construction and material production, which accounts for 11 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally.
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