Carbon Wise was named a 2025 winner in the BUILD Sustainable Building Awards. The award recognizes firms delivering measurable sustainability outcomes in the built environment through real project work. 

We were recognized for advancing low-carbon building strategies through whole-building life cycle assessment, helping project teams make clear, buildable decisions.

Carbon Wise received an Honorable Mention at the Urbanarium Awards – Decoding Timber Towers for our Fluvial Formwork submission in collaboration with TKAD.

The project explored how mass timber high rises can reduce embodied carbon while meeting real design and construction constraints. Our contribution focused on Life Cycle Assessment and carbon benchmarking to support design decisions that are practical, repeatable, and scalable.

Carbon Wise has been recognized with the prestigious HAVAN Trailblazer Award for 2024.

This award celebrates our leadership in advancing sustainable building practices, driving innovation, and fostering a positive impact on the construction industry.

Carbon Wise has been recognized with the prestigious BC Embodied Carbon Award in both 2023 and 2024.

This award celebrates our leadership in reducing embodied carbon in buildings, driving innovation, and making a lasting impact on the construction industry’s sustainability practices.

The article “The Elephant in the Room: Deconstruction Reduces Embodied Carbon” discusses the significant environmental benefits of deconstruction as an alternative to traditional demolition.

By reusing materials from deconstructed buildings, substantial reductions in embodied carbon can be achieved. This practice not only lowers the overall carbon footprint but also offers financial savings and supports local economies through job creation in the recycling and reuse sectors.

In this episode of Specified Growth Podcast, Erick from Vema Deconstruction and our own Elisabeth talk about the deconstruction process and some of the main benefits involved. They also discuss the concept of sustainable demolition, different ways of recycling deconstructed materials, reducing our carbon footprint in the construction industry, and more.

The article presents Carbon Wise’s life-cycle assessment (LCA) of a net-zero energy home retrofit, focusing on the environmental benefits and reduced embodied carbon compared to a new build.

The study emphasizes the significant reduction in embodied emissions through material reuse and the selection of low-carbon building materials. It illustrates the potential for deep energy retrofits to offer substantial environmental benefits over new constructions, emphasizing the critical role of considering both operational and embodied emissions.