Advances in Materials Science and Engineering has retracted the article titled “Case Study of Carbon Emissions from a Building’s Life Cycle Based on BIM and Ecotect” [1]. The article was previously published as Peng C, “Calculation of a building’s life cycle carbon emissions based on Ecotect and building information modeling,” (2016), Journal of Cleaner Production, Part 1 112, pp. 453–465. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.078.