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Lunch & Learn – Embodied Carbon as a Performance Metric
November 10, 2022 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Free – $35.00AIA Triangle Lunch & Learn Program
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| Embodied Carbon as a Performance Metric |
| Thursday, November 10, 2022 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | 1 AIA LU/HSW |
| Option to attend in-person or online via Zoom |
| Center for Architecture & Design | 14 E. Peace Street | Raleigh, NC |
| Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees |
| (Deadline for in-person registration: Wednesday, November 9 at 10:00 am) |
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REGISTRATION OPTIONS ZOOM REGISTRATION ONLY – Register HERE to attend online and receive Zoom link IN-PERSON REGISTRATION
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| The topic of embodied carbon in the AEC industry has become a critical issue. Buildings alone account for 40% of the global greenhouse gas emissions. Two-thirds of that total impact is from operational emissions while the remainder is from embodied emissions. Embodied emissions include all the emissions required to produce everything that goes into our buildings – the structure, enclosure and all the materials inside. Historically, the focus in the design community has been on reducing operational emissions since they represent the majority of the total impact. In response, the AEC community has been able to reduce operational emissions in the built environment through designing smarter buildings, as a result the recent focus has shifted to the other one-third of the pie, embodied carbon. In response to a new focus on embodied carbon, the USGBC included a new credit under the materials section, Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction, where there is an option to perform a Whole Building Lifecycle Assessment (WBLCA) worth a total of 3 points in v4 and 4 points in LEED v4.1. The goal of the WBLCA is to reduce the embodied impacts of a building by quantifying the environmental impacts of structure and enclosure. This course provides an overview of embodied carbon, the role that structural engineers play in the sustainable design process, how design teams can measure and minimize carbon impacts in building systems, and an understanding of how sustainable structural design integrates with other building systems to reduce overall impact. We will also review Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment and LEED v4 through a recent case study.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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| PRESENTED BY
Kelly Roberts, P.E., S.E., LEED AP BD+C and Matt O’Callaghan, PE, SE Kelly Roberts is a Principal and Senior Structural Project Manager at Walter P Moore Atlanta. Roberts leads Walter P Moore’s Sustainable Design Community of Practice and is a founding board member of the non-profit material reuse center, Lifecycle Building Center. She is founding chair of the NCSEA Sustainability Committee and co-chair of the Atlanta Carbon Leadership Forum. She is immediate Past-President of ACI Georgia and a member of ACI 318 N, SEI SE 2050 Advisory Council, USGBC Georgia Market Leadership Board, AIA Atlanta COTE Steering Committee, and the USGBC MR Technical Advisory Group. Roberts was named as one of the 2018 Top Young Professionals by Engineering News Record, she was recognized by Building Design + Construction as one of the 40 Under 40 Class of 2021 and by Engineering Georgia Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Women. |
ZOOM REGISTRATIONS ONLY – Register HERE to attend online and receive Zoom link
IN-PERSON REGISTRATION – REGISTER BELOW
- Register below to attend in-person
- Deadline for in-person registration is Wednesday, November 9 at 10:00 am
- Lunch will be provided to in-person registrants
- The program will begin promptly at 12:00 PM
- Registration begins at 11:30 AM – Please arrive early to allow time for check-in and lunch
- Face masks are optional