Abstract
This course provides designers with information about the key issues of decarbonizing buildings, as well as specific steps to be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the building industry. It will include recent research on buildings and embodied carbon, focusing on increasing sustainability.
Presenters will demonstrate how engineers, architects, and owners can leverage their roles and the available tools to reduce the EC content of their buildings.
Learning Objectives
- Define what “decarbonizing” a building project means, including explaining key terms such as “embodied carbon” and “net zero carbon”.
- Use key approaches in building design, material selection and specification to reduce the embodied carbon in the building envelope and structure. Also explain the available embodied carbon tools.
- Employ beneficial electrification to reduce buildings’ operational carbon dioxide emissions.
- Design to meet building performance standards as more local jurisdictions adopt these practices to meet community greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
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