COTE Getting to Net Zero: Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Material Specs and Mass Timber Structures

AIAT COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT (COTE) PRESENTS

GETTING TO NET ZERO DESIGN LECTURE SERIES

Workshop 3: Reducing Embodied Carbon Through

Material Specifications and Mass Timber Structures

Tuesday, October 27 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm| 1.5 HSW

AIA Members/AIAT Annual Partners/Students: $0 | Non Members: $35

• Online program – registration required
• Deadline to register is 10:00 am on October 27th
• Link to Zoom meeting will be emailed to registrants on the morning of the program

REDUCING EMBODIED CARBON THROUGH MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS AND MASS TIMBER STRUCTURES

SPEAKERS: Anne Hicks, FAIA, LEED Fellow (Long Green Specs);  Bruce Lindsey (Woodworks)

In order for architects to have the greatest impact on climate change over the next 10 years, how we specify building materials and design our structural systems to lower embodied carbon will be as important if not more than lowering operational carbon. This session will focus primarily on design strategies to reduce a building’s embodied carbon through the specification of building materials. The lecture will show best practices for building specifications of interior and exterior materials and how to specify products that have EPD’s and are healthy and low in embodied carbon. The lecture will also reveal the importance of the design of the structural system for reducing the embodied carbon with an emphasis on how to design and specify mass timber systems.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will recognize the importance of reducing a building’s embodied carbon through the specification of interior and exterior building materials.

Participants will derive the best practices for specifying materials that have a low embodied carbon and which building systems and materials will have the greatest impact on reducing the building’s overall embodied carbon.

Participants will assess the importance of the design of the structural system on reducing the embodied carbon and some of the advantages of using a mass timber structure.

Participants will discover the basics of how to design and specify mass timber structural systems including CLT systems and some of the strategies for selecting the most appropriate mass timber frame system for the building type.