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bimCAT Climate Action Tool

C Change Labs

bimCAT Climate Action Tool

C Change Labs

bimCAT™ is a free Revit plugin integrated with EC3, the world's leading tool for construction sustainability. Export quantities, visualize impacts, and build a library of sustainable assemblies.

Free

The Building Information Model Climate Action Tool (bimCAT) gives you a fully functioning web-based Carbon Query Database (such as EC3) inside your Autodesk® Revit® project.

  • Upload material types and quantities to the web app from Revit.
  • Use powerful estimation tools to get takeoffs in the units required by Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
  • Evaluate climate impact and savings opportunities based on over 100K verified EPDs for real products.
  • Use rich interactive graphs and heatmaps to understand the areas of greatest impact and savings potential in the design.
  • Annotate takeoff equations and GWP intensity back to the .rvt file for use in other designs and future versions. 
  • Save, share, and compare Revit families in a library of bimCAT-annotated components.  
  • Create custom reports for Buy Clean policies, LEED, and ICMS.

Note: This app uses a custom installer (and not the standard App Store installer).

Details

Operating system

win64-platform-icon

Release date

Nov 7, 2023


Last updated

May 29, 2025


Version

1.7.1


Language

English

Compatible with

RVT-icon

RVT

2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Certifications

Digitally signed

Digitally signed

Capabilities

Interoperability

Materials

Architectural design

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

bimCAT is a free sustainability plugin from bimCAT Carbon Action Technology Society, a British Columbia environmental nonprofit. ·Software development by C-Change Labs, Inc. ·Developed in partnership withPerkins+Will,Autodesk, andBuilding Transparency ·Library Browser original design courtesy of the Design Technology Team at ZGF Architects ·tally® original design courtesy of KT Innovations We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of theProvince of British Columbia through the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, which made creation of this tool possible.

Support is available via the Help menu in the plugin, and via the Report Bugs and Feedback button inside EC3.

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