Building Transparency Documentation
  • Welcome
  • EC3
    • Getting Started
      • Project Quick Start Guide
    • Main Features
      • Find & Compare Materials
        • Using Specification Filters
        • Geographical Regions
      • Plan & Compare Buildings
        • Bill of Quantities
        • Units of Measure
        • Builders
        • Material Calculators
        • Data Validations
        • A4 Transportation Emissions
        • A5 Construction Phase Emissions
      • Level Bids
    • Material categories
      • Processed Glass
    • Managing Data
      • Add EPDs to EC3
      • Manage Data
      • Users & Permissions
      • Organizations
    • API & Integrations
    • FAQ
      • Pilot User FAQs
    • Glossary
    • Release Notes
      • 📝EC3 Updates - 18th June 2024
      • 📝EC3 Updates - 22nd May 2024
      • 📝EC3 Updates - April 2024
    • Enterprise Integration Guides
      • Setup Single Sign On (SSO) with SAML
  • Methodology
    • EPD Comparability
    • Uncertainty & Statistics
    • Project Planner
    • Reference Lines
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  • Log In
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  • Tool Tips
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  • FAQ and Glossary
  • Report Bugs & Feedback
  1. EC3

Getting Started

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Create an Account

To register for an EC3 account, go to and enter the requested information, making sure to accept the Beta User Agreement and Privacy Notice.

If you would like access to in-progress beta features and product categories, you can do so through a organizational or individual .

Account Tiers

EC3 is primarily for professional business use. Users who specify their Employer and Profession will be granted a Professional account. Those who do not, or who register with a personal email address (e.g., Gmail or Hotmail) will only have a Private account with some features (including sharing features) disabled to protect privacy.

Where to fill out Employer and Profession

1) Navigate to your user preferences by clicking on your user name.

2) Look for the Employment section, where you can fill in your profession.

3) Save the changes using the Submit button at the top of the page.

Features
Private
Professional
Pilot
Curator

Early access to categories

Early access features

Enterprise features

Biweekly or quarterly calls

Manual entry of EPDs

Verify and confirm EPDs

Project Limits
Private
Professional
Pilot
Curator

Max # of buildings

5

24+

1/month

+50/year

Unlimited

Prerequisites
Private
Professional
Pilot
Curator

Verified email

16 years of age

Terms of Service

Business/educational email

Identified profession & employer

Approval by BuildingTransparency

Data Curator Aggreement

Log In

Once a user has registered for an account, an activation email will be sent to the registered email address.

No confirmation email? Our confirmation emails come from an automated system that sometimes ends up Spam folders. If it's not there, check with your IT department and make sure the following address is whitelisted:

Connect accounts

After creating an EC3 account, users may link their EC3 account to other platforms such as Amazon, Microsoft, or Google, and use their credentials for those platforms to log in to EC3.

General Navigation

Once logged in to EC3, users will see the following welcome screen below with the various identified elements. It is intended for EC3 to be an intuitive user interface and users are encouraged to explore the tool’s functionality. To provide in-tool direction, tooltips will appear as users hover their cursor over a given field.

Getting Help

Tool Tips

Most icons, fields and functions in EC3 are documented with a tooltip. Hover your mouse over a field for guidance on the meaning, format, and usage of the field.

Tours

Many parts of EC3 have tours, either in the form of a walkthrough or an annotated screenshot, which introduce a screen or diagram. The tour will animate until you click on it for the first time.

FAQ and Glossary

A Glossary, list of Frequently Asked Questions, and API documentation are accessible from the settings menu (gear icon) in the top-right corner of the EC3 page.

Report Bugs & Feedback

To submit suggestions, comments, or questions, please use the Report Bugs & Feedback button located at the bottom right of EC3.

(i.e. to Public)

Once activated, users may log in to the tool at .

Building Transparency will never ask for your username and password by email or phone. Please report any emails that do so, it may be a attack.

automated-emails@buildingtransparency.org
https://buildingtransparency.org/auth/login
phishing
Support via Usersnap
Search Public Materials
Create Private Buildings
Create User Groups
https://buildingtransparency.org/auth/register
Pilot access to EC3
View Public Buildings
Share Buildings
Publish Buildings
EC3 Welcome page.
Field tooltips.
In-tool tours & tutorials.
Settings, FAQ, glossary, and other resources.