Reduce the carbon footprint of your building and infrastructure projects with the MEP Carbon Tool. This powerful add-on simplifies MEP assessments by providing a curated database of relevant materials and excluding those outside the scope of your work.
Life-Cycle & Results Scope
This tool focuses specifically on MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) materials and the related operational emission assessments.
Key Scope Details:
Life-Cycle Stages: A1-A3, A4, A5, B1, B2, B3 B4-B5, B6, B7, C1-C4, and D. This covers a wide range of stages from raw material extraction to end-of-life processing.
Environmental Impact: Global Warming Potential (GWP kg CO2e). This focuses on the carbon footprint of the assessed MEP systems.
This targeted approach simplifies the assessment process for those focused on evaluating and reducing the environmental impact of MEP systems in buildings.
Data scope
The MEP Carbon tool supports both CML (EN15804+A1), EN1504+A2 and TRACI data
Assessment Scope
While the MEP Carbon tool doesn't enforce mandatory material selections, it streamlines the process by including only relevant MEP-related materials.
This guide provides a clear step-by-step approach to completing your MEP assessment using the tool. Here's a breakdown of the process:
1. Define the Building Area:
Start by inputting the building's area.
Use the Gross Internal Floor Area (GIFA) as the minimum. This ensures consistency and allows for comparisons across different projects.
The tool will then normalize the results per square meter (m2).
2. Input and Refine Construction Materials:
Enter the specific construction materials used in your MEP systems.
Fine-tune the data by adjusting settings for each material:
Service life: How long the material is expected to last.
Transport settings: Distance and mode of transport for the material.
Localization: Where the material was sourced.
Repair rate: Repair (B3) can be accounted for in the building materials query as percentage of the A1-A3 emissions.
Wastage percentage: Account for material waste during construction (linked to A5 emissions).
End-of-life process: How the material will be handled at the end of its life (e.g., recycling, landfill).
3. Leverage Advanced Features (Optional):
Reused materials: Indicate if a material is reused, which eliminates emissions related to raw material extraction, manufacturing, and waste (A1-A3 and A5).
Existing materials: For materials already on-site (like a reused foundation), set the transport distance to zero to remove transport-related emissions (A4).
Custom classifications: Expert license holders can create custom or use private classifications for more tailored assessments.
4. Input data to maintenance and operational energy and water usage
Emissions from maintenance (B2) of MEP equipment can be assessed on it its own tab. This would include e.g. electricity used or materials changed as part of maintenance.
Input energy consumption to account electricity and fuel related emissions (B6).
Input water consumption to account water usage related emissions (B7).
5. Analyze the Results:
The MEP Carbon Tool primarily reports on Global Warming Potential (GWP) in kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent (kg CO2e).
You can generate a detailed report in Excel format for further analysis and documentation.
This streamlined process simplifies MEP assessments, allowing you to focus on understanding and minimizing the environmental impact of your building's mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.