Join 3C-REN, AIA Santa Barbara, and the Central Coast Green Building Council for Carbon Smart Construction, a new series of green building happy hours bringing together people from across the building and design community.
Each event offers a chance to grab a drink, connect with colleagues and new faces, and dig into a different topic related to building better, healthier, and more sustainable buildings. From embodied carbon and bio-based materials to high-performance, all-electric construction, the series explores the ideas, materials, and practices shaping the future of building on the Central Coast.
This event is part of the Carbon Smart Construction series.
Event Description
With growing awareness of the role of embodied carbon in the overall carbon footprint of construction, strategies for reduction tend to focus on a few high impact materials – namely, concrete and steel. We’ll discuss these as well as the potential in bio-based materials for reducing embodied carbon in residential and commercial construction.
Learning Objectives
- Understand CALGreen requirements for embodied carbon that took effect July 2024 and were expanded in the 2025 code update.
- Be able to categorize common building materials for their likely carbon impacts
- Identify simple tools and resources to streamline carbon comparisons
- Understand how bio-based materials can contribute to lower/net zero carbon projects
Learning Units
1 AIA HSW LUs approved for this course
Instructors
Michelle Zimney, In Balance Green Consulting
Amanda Martin, Renewal Revolution