C.Scale

A whole-life carbon tool that helps teams set climate-positive design strategies at concept stage and refine them through delivery. C.Scale estimates the relative impact of choices on embodied, operational, and landscape carbon—when changes are cheapest and influence is highest. Why nowTime-bound targets for the built environment won’t be met if carbon is only quantified late in design. C.Scale moves carbon to the front of the process, so early decisions align with project-level reduction goals from day one. How it works (with scarce data) Accepts a minimum set of project inputs—no detailed model required. Combines region-specific background data, forward-looking projections, peer-reviewed research, and ML models to generate comparative results. Acts like a “shoebox” study for carbon: not a final answer, but a fast way to see which strategies are promising, unlikely, or worth deeper analysis. What you can test Embodied carbon moves: structure, envelope, materials, ass