The Jones Library Building Committee released the latest report on the climate impacts of the planned renovation and expansion. As directed by the Committee, the Finegold Alexander architectural team used a Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to compare the embodied carbon of the current design to the equivalent assessment completed in 2020. While some measures have increased and others decreased, the availability of more refined design documents shows that the overall Global Warming Potential is reduced from the earlier assessment, along with other improvements within the overall measurement.
The Nov 17, 2023 assessment is known as the Tally Report, because it uses the Tally LCA software to assess plan impacts.
The full report is posted on the building project website, www.joneslibrary.org/buildingproject
