The Structural Engineers 2050 Challenge (SE 2050), issued by the University of Washington’s Carbon Leadership Forum, is an initiative designed to measure progress toward Zero Carbon buildings by 2050. The challenge, supports the target set by the Paris Climate Agreement to keep the increase of global temperatures well below 2˚C. According to The University of Washington’s Carbon Leadership Forum, “the SE 2050 initiative will challenge structural engineers to meet embodied carbon benchmarks and increasingly higher reduction targets in a ‘race towards the most efficient building’ as we approach the year 2050.”
  
PCS Structural Solutions has signed on in support of the initiative to formally urge the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) and the American Institute of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to officially endorse the SE 2050 Challenge and help reach out to engineering firms across the nation to participate in the challenge.
  
The SEI’s Sustainability Committee met with its leadership on July 23rd to work toward an official endorsement from SEI and the ASCE. Feedback from the meeting will help the committee refine its strategy and goals as it formally begins to implements the SE 2050 Challenge. The University of Washington’s Carbon Leadership Forum and SEI will provide the main push for the initiative. Read about the SE 2050 Challenge here.