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What does 'beyond carbon' actually mean for a project?

Going beyond carbon means measuring biodiversity, ecosystem services, supply-chain origin and sufficiency — and making them traceable through the project lifecycle. REGEN converts these into evidence-based decision-support tools that designers and clients can actually use.

Key points

  • Biodiversity, ecosystem services, supply-chain origin and sufficiency as first-class metrics.
  • Lifecycle tracing of impacts that classical LCA leaves out.
  • Decision tools designed for use by clients, designers and engineers — not only specialists.

Sources

Turning unknown impacts into evidence-based decision-making tools.
REGEN — Applied Science Towards a Regenerative Built Environment · BLOXHUB, 2025 · Two-pager · p. 1
Lifecycle-specific design impact, including embodied ecosystem impacts beyond classical LCA.
Regenerative Built Environment Design through Ecosystem Services Provision · Ming Fricke, 2025 · PhD proposal

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