Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 46.23
Liaison Martín Sánchez Gutiérrez
Submission Date June 29, 2024

STARS v3.0

Tecnológico de Monterrey – Campus Chihuahua
IL-42: Purchased Building Materials

Status Score Responsible Party
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Criteria

An institution earns 1 bonus point when it has established embodied carbon targets for new building projects and/or seven or more of the building materials listed below using the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) tool or an equivalent resource:

  • Concrete (ready mixed concrete, slurry, shotcrete)
  • Masonry (CMU)
  • Steel (rebar, steel wire and mesh, plate steel, structural steel, steel decking, cold formed steel, open-web steel joists)
  • Aluminum (aluminum extrusions, thermally improved aluminum extrusions)
  • Wood (dimensional lumber, prefabricated wood products, composite lumber, mass timber)
  • Sheathing (plywood/OSB sheathing, glass mat gypsum sheathing)
  • Thermal/moisture protection (insulation, membrane roofing)
  • Cladding (insulated metal panel, metal panel)
  • Openings (glazing)
  • Finishes (gypsum board, acoustical ceiling tiles, resilient flooring, carpet)
  • Network infrastructure (data cabling)
  • Asphalt
  • Manufacturing inputs (cementitious)

This may include commitments to reductions in embodied carbon from baseline, absolute thresholds of embodied carbon, and/or the consideration of embodied carbon in procurement processes (e.g., prioritizing products that fall within a set percentile of embodied carbon for a material type or including embodied carbon as a consideration in the bid solicitation and appraisal).

Measurement

Report on the current policies and practices. 


Applicability

This credit is optional.


Scoring


Measurement

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.