carbon-app

Read and search Materials from the EC3 API in a GUI

The app consists of a a main App written in Rust with Egui and a library called EC3 API that handles querying the EC3API.

Usage

To use the app you must have your own ec3 account, create a token and set it into the environment with the key API_KEY.

For example:

# .env in the root folder
API_KEY="..."

Screenshots

EC3 API

Material filter:

The app implements its own 'Material Filter' serializer to query from the EC3 API.

Sample request:

{"pragma":[{"name":"eMF","args":["2.0/1"]},{"name":"lcia","args":["EF 3.0"]}],"category":"Concrete","filter":[{"field":"jurisdiction","op":"in","arg":["150"]},{"field":"epd_types","op":"in","arg":["Product EPDs","Industry EPDs"]}]}

Sample response:

'!EC3 search("Concrete") WHERE \n jurisdiction: IN("150") AND\n epd_types: IN("Product EPDs", "Industry EPDs") \n!pragma eMF("2.0/1"), lcia("EF 3.0")'

TODO!

• Hot reloading. Implemented following the example of rust-hot-reloading
• Visualization of the GWP per element and per category.
• Indexing and searching per keyword. Basically make it possible to find a related material with some keywords.
• Loading materials via API without blocking UI.
• Searching new materials via API.
• Add the material id from the api, to avoid clashes between materials
• Add a list of categories to make searching easier
• Add a graph of material categories to visualize
• Visualize GWP averages per category on graph view
• Store and load materials from a local sqlite db
• Implement a basic quantities input specification
• Implement advanced quantities reading from remote project (Speckle or APS)
• Make material selectable on Chart view and display details