Decarbonization Roadmaps

Tuuli creates decarbonization roadmaps, which are packages of strategies optimized to reduce a building’s emissions and meet a specific carbon target. These strategies are analyzed based on their complexity, capital cost, and carbon reduction potential.

• Complexity: Reflects the cost and time required to implement the strategy, depending on the materials and processes involved.

• Impact: Represents the carbon reduction potential, calculated as the difference between the embodied and operational carbon of the building with the strategies implemented versus the baseline building.

• Capital Cost: Determined using material quantities from your uploaded building files and material costs from the RSMeans cost database. Additional costs for equipment and construction labor are also sourced from RSMeans.

These strategies are designed to guide the project toward its carbon targets. Tuuli identifies the most optimal strategies by applying all possible options to a model of the building to calculate potential reductions.

Graphs display carbon intensities, TEUI, and TEDI, comparing the baseline building (without carbon reduction strategies), the goal, and the current design. When you select a decarbonization roadmap from the list on the left, the graph also displays the building with the roadmap implemented.

Want to learn more about how Tuuli determines which strategies are appropriate and optimal for the building? Head to the Optimizations section