Welcome to the CISC sustainability webpage!
Here you’ll find the latest and greatest information on steel sustainability by Canadians for Canadians.
Check out our most recent release; a comprehensive study evaluating the embodied carbon impact of typical low-rise commercial and institutional buildings in Canada. This report highlights how steel construction not only meets but can help lead the way toward achieving national embodied carbon targets. Explore the findings and see how steel supports a lower-carbon future.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: Low-Rise-Commercial-Embodied-Carbon-Study
CISC is proud to share important information on Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for various steel products to support design teams in developing their projects and successfully winning bids.
EPDs are documents that quantify the environmental impacts from the lifecycle of a product. The CISC supports the transparent reporting of environmental impact data associated with construction products to help successfully achieve reductions targets and do our part to reduce carbon emissions.
The CISC has developed an embodied carbon calculator for steel products to assist in your calculation of embodied carbon for your project. As you will see, you can vastly improve on the projects embodied carbon, from the industry average values, depending on where the steel is sourced.
(We have provided a few examples (in the sourcing pull down tabs).
The CISC is working hard to provide you with the latest and greatest in sustainability case studies and embodied carbon information. Please find our more recent publications: Check out our Case Studies here