The KPF Global Director of Sustainability joins fellow experts to examine how the prevalence digital tools is driving decision-making around carbon for the Fall 2026 issue of Oculus magazine.
As carbon data becomes more extensive and digital tools more advanced, architects face a new challenge: not what they can measure, but how that information changes the decisions they make at scale. That question is at the center of “From Data to Decisions: Digital Tools for Decarbonizing Buildings at Scale,” co-authored by Carlos alongside Jeremy Shiman of WRNS Studio and Kelley Tapia of Samskara Studio, published in the Fall 2026 issue of Oculus, the magazine of AIA New York.
The piece traces carbon data across three stages of a building’s life: embodied carbon reporting, grid-scale energy demand, and construction performance and gives expert insight into how a new generation of digital tools are giving decisionmakers more and more insight into each. For architects, the group writes, the promise of this tech lies in “moving beyond using digital tools primarily to demonstrate performance after a decision has been made, toward using them to understand consequences while there is still an opportunity to shape the outcome.”
