Question: You and your group should use the IStructE Structural Carbon Tool ( available on Brightspace ) to calculate the embodied carbon of the following structure.

You and your group should use the IStructE Structural Carbon Tool (available on Brightspace) to calculate the embodied carbon of the following structure. It is a 5-storey residential building, with a plan area of 10m10m, and height of 3.3m per floor (16.5m in total height). The building frame has been designed for maximum efficiency in reinforced concrete - see values in Table 2 which are taken from a past final year project thesis by Rory Dravins (Dravins,2021). The full detailed design may be found in the thesis which is available on Brightspace.
Using the data provided below in Table 2, calculate the total embodied carbon of the structure. You must create two additional schemes (using two additional tabs in the spreadsheet), with more sustainable concrete materials (incorporating GGBS or Fly Ash for example). You may select different materials using the built-in values in the spreadsheet or go a step further and select concrete materials which contain supplementary cementitious materials (SCMS) from the ICE (Inventory of Carbon and Energy) database available on Brightspace. You will need to find their EPD values in the ICE spreadsheet, and then set up a Custom EPD in the IStructE tool.
Table 2 Material Quantities - Reinforced Concrete Building (Dravins,2021)
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