AIA Webinar: Embodied Carbon: The Next Frontier in High Performance Building

Each year, buildings account for 39% of energy-related global carbon emissions. A quarter of these emissions result from embodied carbon or the carbon emissions associated with building materials, construction, and end-of-life.

What if buildings could become part of the solution to our climate crisis? While solutions for reducing these emissions exist, we can go further, moving from doing less harm to providing climate benefits. In this webinar, we will explore cost-effective methods for reducing the impacts of embodied carbon, identify ways to measure embodied carbon and look at the opportunities to use buildings to provide negative carbon emissions by storing durable carbon. Using case studies, we will examine the specific ways that architects can use embodied carbon criteria for designing high-performance buildings at little to no cost premium using simple, market-ready solutions and best practices.

About the Speaker

Victor Olgyay, FAIA – Principal, Carbon Free Buildings, RMI 

Victor is a Principal in RMI’s Buildings Practice promoting adoption of net zero district developments, low embodied carbon materials, and comprehensive building energy retrofits. From 1993 to 2000 Victor was an Associate Professor and Director of Research at the University of Hawaii School of Architecture and was Chairman of the AIA Honolulu Energy and Environment Committee. Victor served on the Board of Directors for the American Solar Energy Society, the University of Colorado Design Review Board, the Carbon Leadership Forum, ASHRAE’s Task Force for Building Decarbonization, the AIA National Committee on the Environment (COTE AG) and the United States GSA Green Building Advisory Committee, where he ran a task group to promote the procurement of low embodied carbon materials by the Federal government.

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