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Improved operational energy efficiency has increased the percentage of embodied energy in the total life cycle of building structures. Despite a growing interest in this field, practitioners lack a comprehensive survey of material quantities and embodied carbon in building structures. This thesis answers the key question: What is the embodied carbon of different structures?... Three primary techniques are used: a review of existing tools and literature; a collaboration with a worldwide network of design firms through conversations with experts and the creation of a growing interactive database containing the material efficiency and embodied carbon of thousands of buildings