Become an Individual EC3 Pilot User

Join a growing number of AEC professionals supporting the pilot version of EC3! Help us continue to improve the tool by getting early access to new material categories and features and sharing your feedback.

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Introducing Individual Pilot Access to EC3

Building Transparency is now making it possible for individual users to access the pilot version of the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3)!

Previously only available to corporate partners and their employees, the nonprofit has expanded pilot access so that individual users can test and inform further EC3 development, additional material categories, and new features before they are pushed out to the public tool for everyone’s use.

Become an EC3 insider and help us improve and refine our tools and data to drive embodied carbon action.

(C) Garrett Rowland

Join Our Mission with Pilot Access

By becoming a pilot user, you are taking the next step in supporting our mission of providing the open access data and tools necessary to enable the building sector to address embodied carbon’s role in climate change. You will also help drive and inform further category and feature development within the EC3 tool, accelerating their eventual availability on the free and public version, once tested in the pilot version.

We offer two options to help further our mission and provide access to the latest version of the EC3 tool. These are:

Annual

$500/year

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Monthly

$50/month

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Both include:

  • Access to pilot features and product categories for testing and use, prior to them becoming publicly available.
  • Quarterly pilot user “Office Hours” with the Building Transparency team, to:

Learn about newly released and upcoming pilot categories and features.

Provide direct feedback on pilot features and categories

Ask questions.

  • Inform the prioritization of additional improvements or further functionality within the EC3 tool.

(C) Garrett Rowland

What’s Different About Being a Pilot User?

Our mission is to provide the open-access data and tools necessary to enable broad and swift action across the building industry in addressing embodied carbon’s role in climate change. Corporate partners and pilot users play an integral role in helping us refine and push out new features and material categories to the public instance based on testing and feedback gathering.

We entrust our pilot users to be advocates for the future development and expansion of our public tool, helping to test the many pilot material categories and exciting new features made available to them as part of a larger beta testing group.

Want to learn more? Read our pilot user FAQ resource.

Access FAQs

Become a Corporate Pilot Partner

For companies looking for pilot access to EC3, we recommend considering becoming a corporate or enterprise partner of the tool. Here’s more on each:

(C) ZGF Architects

Corporate Partner

A corporate partnership is for organizations interested in contributing expert beta testing of our functions and data prior to broad release. Benefits include:

Access to Pilot categories for ALL employees

Support of API Access and use, if applicable

Logo Recognition as Partner

Regular Biweekly Support Meetings & Priority User Support

Enterprise Partner

An enterprise partnership is a type of lead sponsorship for organizations who require more custom tool functionality in terms of data, API access, tool customization and more. Benefits beyond what’s included for Corporate Partners are:

Individual, hosted instance of the EC3 tool on a dedicated server of their choosing

Dedicated Online & Biweekly User Support for multiple user groups within and outside of Enterprise Partner company, as needed

Custom Branding, Login, User Interface & Workflow

Portfolio Level Tracking & Reporting

Assurance that any new functionality that would benefit the public users of EC3 will become a pilot feature for broader testing.

(C) Turner Construction Company

Become a Corporate Partner
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