5 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals provide an important framework to drive social, environmental, and economic progress globally. Although Autodesk addresses all 17 goals to varying degrees, we focus particularly on the following goals to maximize our positive impact with our customers and through our products, operations, and philanthropic activities. Working to tackle the housing crisis with off-site construction technology Autodesk is supporting Factory OS , a volumetric modular construction startup, to help address the affordable housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Factory_OS is revolutionizing home construction by building multifamily homes more affordably and sustainably in a massive off-site facility, while also creating jobs. This innovative approach has considerable potential to displace conventional construction practices for affordable multi-unit residential properties in U.S. urban centers. Autodesk expanded its relationship with Factory_OS with an investment in 2019 that supported the build-out of the Factory Floor Learning Center, a space dedicated to education and research on industrialized construction and changes needed in public policy to optimize its benefits. Learn more . Addressing embodied carbon in buildings The embodied carbon of the materials used in buildings—from resource extraction, refining, manufacturing, and logistics—accounts for 11% of global GHG emissions each year. To help customers reduce these impacts, during 2019 Autodesk served as a lead sponsor of the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) , incubated at the Carbon Leadership Forum with input from nearly 50 industry partners, including leading roles by C Change Labs and Skanska. EC3 takes data from Environmental Product Declarations to align, assess, and present the embodied carbon impacts in a way that’s easy to use and act upon during material specification and procurement. What would have taken days by experts can now be done in minutes by general practitioners. We’ve enabled EC3’s integration with BIM 360 ® (part of Autodesk Construction Cloud™) at no additional cost. AEC professionals can transfer project material quantity data directly from BIM 360 to EC3 with the push of a button. This turns the 3D building model into an interactive embodied carbon heat map (see graphic), enabling users to visualize the impacts of materials selection and make carbon-smart choices. Learn more . Customer examples A green renovation of a midcentury monstrosity in Champagne, France Learn more How BLOX doubled efficiency and quality with lean design and construction data Learn more Dekker/Perich/Sabatini saves a client $2.5 million with net-zero building solutions Learn more