Leaders In Sustainability
Morrison Hershfield is a leader in sustainability for the built environment and is committed to innovative ideas and solutions that will help our clients to achieve their sustainability goals.
We help clients across North America understand and achieve their objectives through our priority services
Carbon Management Services
The public and private sector is being called upon to help fight climate change by achieving ambitious reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions. In North America, approximately 35% of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted come from buildings.
Life Cycle Assessment of Carbon Footprint
Since the early 1990s, Morrison Hershfield has partnered with the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute in the development and promotion of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). LCA is an internationally recognized approach to evaluating the environmental impacts of products, processes or operations over their full life cycle. It is widely accepted as the most credible and comprehensive way to assess, compare and report on true environmental impacts. Morrison Hershfield and Athena have worked together to develop groundbreaking LCA software that can calculate embodied energy and material effects (including global warming potential) of transportation and energy production, transfer and use.
To date, we have conducted life cycle analyses and GHG footprints for over 50 projects in North America spanning 15 years. This experience, as well as our long-term working relationship with Athena and unhindered access to the industry-leading ATHENA® LCA software tools and extensive database, makes us uniquely positioned as a North American leader in carbon assessment work. |
Morrison Hershfield works a variety of customers across different sectors to:
- Measure your carbon footprint:
Carbon footprinting is all about rigour. Our GHG assessment work is based on the reporting protocols defined under the ISO 14064 standard as adopted by the major North American GHG registries including The Climate Registry (TCR) and the Climate Action Reserve (CAR). However, we go beyond typical carbon counting, using life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques to identify GHG sources, sinks and reservoirs (SSRs) as well as calculation of emission factors (EFs) where published EFs are not available (see sidebar).
- Reduce your carbon footprint:
Our team of engineers understands how to identify, design and implement means to reduce carbon footprint through energy efficiency, renewable energy and switching from carbon-intensive combustion technologies.
Contact Us
Email sustainable@morrisonhershfield.com or call GHG Program Manager Douglas Sharpe, at 604 454 9305 ext. 2256, for further details about our carbon assessment
services and the sectors in which we operate.