U.S., Jan. 9 -- Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, has launched Beacon, an innovative embodied carbon measurement tool to change the way structural engineers understand and manage embodied carbon optimisation.

The tool - a first-of-its-kind - gives users the ability to measure embodied carbon, allowing for more informed decisions throughout the design process.

Beacon is being introduced after an intensive, three-year research and development process led by Thornton Tomasetti's CORE studio, a firm-wide virtual incubator focused on innovation through computational modelling and research.The tool is a sophisticated Autodesk Revit plugin that generates a comprehensive data visualization of a project's embodied carbon. ...