I'm working on reducing the embodied carbon of a project of mine, and I'm having to compare column systems, between WF columns and HSS. WF columns have significantly lower embodied carbon (~60% reductions when using the same weight of steel), so I'd love to be able to compare the two without having to do a ton of manual calcs. Could there be a way to toggle between designing for steel weight and designing between minimum embodied carbon based on industry average embodied carbon values? This would also require trial groups to be a mix of WF and HSS columns.
We have considered using embodied carbon as an optimization criteria. It gets complicated since the carbon costs are not counted the same way everywhere. For the time being, a customization of the steel beam and column design tables can be applied to bump us the low carbon cost sections above the higher cost sections and achieve the desired optimal selection.