Atlanta, Georgia – ASHRAE and the International Code Council (ICC) are seeking a public review for its joint standard for evaluating and documenting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across a building’s life cycle.
ASHRAE/ICC Standard 240P – Quantification of Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Buildings is open for comment until March 18.
“Standard 240P will play a pivotal role in addressing embodied carbon and significantly impacting the built environment’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly within mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems,” said Ginger Scoggins, 2023-24 ASHRAE president, P.E., fellow ASHRAE.
Standard 240P will provide a methodology to quantify the embodied and operational GHG emissions associated with buildings and their sites. The standard will also provide minimum requirements for life cycle GHG emissions documentation.
The standard is intended to support building industry stakeholders, governments and the finance and investment industry in implementing a common platform for measuring, reporting and acting upon the GHG emissions of buildings.