Mel Chafart is a licensed engineer and research Lead focused on Low Carbon Buildings at the Carbon Leadership Forum. He is focused on data-driven insights into decarbonization strategies and helping practitioners have up-to-date, clean data at their disposal to make accurate and impactful design decisions. Prior to joining the CLF, Mel was a structural engineer at Buro Happold where he assisted in the design of steel and concrete structures in the US and abroad, helped develop internal embodied carbon assessment tools, and built out Buro Happold’s portfolio of benchmarked projects in the US. At CLF, Mel’s recent work includes leveraging Python and other data science tools for the preparation and analysis of WBLCA tool outputs for the CLF WBLCA Benchmark Study and California Carbon Report. He is also a major contributor to SE 2050’s Data Science Team and their work on the SE 2050 Database.